University of South Carolina-Columbia

Research Affiliate

Research Affiliate, Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina

Coastal Carolina University

Assistant Professor of English

Daniel worked at Coastal Carolina University as a Assistant Professor of English

Coastal Carolina University

Associate Professor of English, with Tenure (2013-2017)

My primary teaching and research fields are modern and contemporary U.S. literature, with an emphasis on the literature and culture of the American South, poetics, film, and genre/new media studies. My published scholarship focuses on regional definition vis-à-vis national and global contexts, modes of cultural memory (such as trauma and nostalgia), interactions between emergent media, particularly in their potential to record historical pressures and transitions, and object-oriented ontology (how nonhuman and parahuman things impact the human social realm).

Coastal Carolina University

Assistant Professor

In addition to genre courses (poetry/poetics, film studies, and cultural studies), he has designed topics courses, including “ADAPTATIONS” (literature in connection with new media and multi-modal forms); "ANIMALS" (animal studies); "CULTURAL FORMS OF NOSTALGIA" (memory studies); "COMEDY" (genre studies); "POETRY AND THE SEA" (poetics); and "AFTERLIVES" (ghostlore). Dr. Turner has also taught classes in AMERICAN LITERATURE, from surveys to period courses on THE JAZZ AGE, THE COLD WAR, and CONTEMPORARY U.S. LITERATURE. He has devised courses in SOUTHERN STUDIES, including surveys of Southern literature, seminars on "THE CINEMATIC SOUTH," courses on the “POP SOUTH,” a graduate independent study on “SOUTHERN ACCENTS” (literary, filmic, and aural/musical reproductions of Southern dialects) as well as an interdisciplinary travel course, “BLUE RIDGE TO BLUE SEA” on diverse literary, historical, and sociolinguistic subcultures from the western North Carolina mountains to the South Carolina coastal plain (funded by THE WATSON-BROWN FOUNDATION).

South Carolina Academy of Authors

Member of Board of Governors

Daniel worked at South Carolina Academy of Authors as a Member of Board of Governors

Siena College

Assistant Professor of English

•Director, Greyfriar Living Literature Series (2006-2010): I invited and made arrangements to bring significant literary figures to Siena College, including Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Yusef Komunyakaa and Natasha Trethewey, novelist Daniel Wallace, Irish writer Claire Keegan, and environmentalist author Janisse Ray. I was responsible for nearly all matters concerning these events, including booking the writers, determining the contract, making accommodations and transportation arrangements, organizing luncheons and dinners with the authors, and serving as the primary host. I also handled the publicity for the event, such as creating posters and flyers, sending paper and email announcements to area colleges, bookstores, and media outlets (television stations, newspapers, etc.), as well as writing and recording radio promotional spots. In addition, I established the protocol of having a faculty member deliver a campus-wide colloquium address to introduce Siena students and faculty to the visiting writer’s work, and I conducted on-campus interviews with the authors.

SOUTHERN CROSSINGS: POETRY, MEMORY, AND THE TRANSCULTURAL SOUTH

University of Tennessee Press

From Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: “Daniel Cross Turner has made a key contribution to the critical study and appreciation of the diverse field of contemporary Southern poetics. “Southern Crossings” crosses a gulf in contemporary poetry criticism while using the idea—or ideas, many and contrary—of “Southernness” to appraise poetries created from the profuse, tangled histories of the region. Turner’s close readings are dynamic, even lyrical. He offers a new understanding of rhythm’s central place in contemporary poetry while considering the work of fifteen poets. Through his focus on varied yet interwoven forms of cultural memory, Turner also shows that memory is not, in fact, passé. The way we remember has as much to say about our present as our past: memory is living, shifting, culturally formed and framed. This is a valuable and important book that entwines new visions of poetic forms with forms of regional remembrance and identity.”

SOUTHERN CROSSINGS: POETRY, MEMORY, AND THE TRANSCULTURAL SOUTH

University of Tennessee Press

From Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: “Daniel Cross Turner has made a key contribution to the critical study and appreciation of the diverse field of contemporary Southern poetics. “Southern Crossings” crosses a gulf in contemporary poetry criticism while using the idea—or ideas, many and contrary—of “Southernness” to appraise poetries created from the profuse, tangled histories of the region. Turner’s close readings are dynamic, even lyrical. He offers a new understanding of rhythm’s central place in contemporary poetry while considering the work of fifteen poets. Through his focus on varied yet interwoven forms of cultural memory, Turner also shows that memory is not, in fact, passé. The way we remember has as much to say about our present as our past: memory is living, shifting, culturally formed and framed. This is a valuable and important book that entwines new visions of poetic forms with forms of regional remembrance and identity.”

SOUTHERN CROSSINGS: POETRY, MEMORY, AND THE TRANSCULTURAL SOUTH

University of Tennessee Press

From Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: “Daniel Cross Turner has made a key contribution to the critical study and appreciation of the diverse field of contemporary Southern poetics. “Southern Crossings” crosses a gulf in contemporary poetry criticism while using the idea—or ideas, many and contrary—of “Southernness” to appraise poetries created from the profuse, tangled histories of the region. Turner’s close readings are dynamic, even lyrical. He offers a new understanding of rhythm’s central place in contemporary poetry while considering the work of fifteen poets. Through his focus on varied yet interwoven forms of cultural memory, Turner also shows that memory is not, in fact, passé. The way we remember has as much to say about our present as our past: memory is living, shifting, culturally formed and framed. This is a valuable and important book that entwines new visions of poetic forms with forms of regional remembrance and identity.”

SOUTHERN CROSSINGS: POETRY, MEMORY, AND THE TRANSCULTURAL SOUTH

University of Tennessee Press

From Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: “Daniel Cross Turner has made a key contribution to the critical study and appreciation of the diverse field of contemporary Southern poetics. “Southern Crossings” crosses a gulf in contemporary poetry criticism while using the idea—or ideas, many and contrary—of “Southernness” to appraise poetries created from the profuse, tangled histories of the region. Turner’s close readings are dynamic, even lyrical. He offers a new understanding of rhythm’s central place in contemporary poetry while considering the work of fifteen poets. Through his focus on varied yet interwoven forms of cultural memory, Turner also shows that memory is not, in fact, passé. The way we remember has as much to say about our present as our past: memory is living, shifting, culturally formed and framed. This is a valuable and important book that entwines new visions of poetic forms with forms of regional remembrance and identity.”

SOUTHERN CROSSINGS: POETRY, MEMORY, AND THE TRANSCULTURAL SOUTH

University of Tennessee Press

From Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: “Daniel Cross Turner has made a key contribution to the critical study and appreciation of the diverse field of contemporary Southern poetics. “Southern Crossings” crosses a gulf in contemporary poetry criticism while using the idea—or ideas, many and contrary—of “Southernness” to appraise poetries created from the profuse, tangled histories of the region. Turner’s close readings are dynamic, even lyrical. He offers a new understanding of rhythm’s central place in contemporary poetry while considering the work of fifteen poets. Through his focus on varied yet interwoven forms of cultural memory, Turner also shows that memory is not, in fact, passé. The way we remember has as much to say about our present as our past: memory is living, shifting, culturally formed and framed. This is a valuable and important book that entwines new visions of poetic forms with forms of regional remembrance and identity.”

SOUTHERN CROSSINGS: POETRY, MEMORY, AND THE TRANSCULTURAL SOUTH

University of Tennessee Press

From Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: “Daniel Cross Turner has made a key contribution to the critical study and appreciation of the diverse field of contemporary Southern poetics. “Southern Crossings” crosses a gulf in contemporary poetry criticism while using the idea—or ideas, many and contrary—of “Southernness” to appraise poetries created from the profuse, tangled histories of the region. Turner’s close readings are dynamic, even lyrical. He offers a new understanding of rhythm’s central place in contemporary poetry while considering the work of fifteen poets. Through his focus on varied yet interwoven forms of cultural memory, Turner also shows that memory is not, in fact, passé. The way we remember has as much to say about our present as our past: memory is living, shifting, culturally formed and framed. This is a valuable and important book that entwines new visions of poetic forms with forms of regional remembrance and identity.”

South Carolina Academy of Authors

Board of Governors

South Carolina Academy of Authors

Board of Governors

South Carolina Academy of Authors

Board of Governors

South Carolina Academy of Authors

Board of Governors

South Carolina Academy of Authors

Board of Governors

South Carolina Academy of Authors

Board of Governors

South Carolina Academy of Authors

Board of Governors

South Carolina Academy of Authors

Board of Governors

South Carolina Academy of Authors

Board of Governors

South Carolina Academy of Authors

Board of Governors

South Carolina Academy of Authors

Board of Governors

South Carolina Academy of Authors

Board of Governors

South Carolina Academy of Authors

Board of Governors