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Hilary Turner

Dr. Hilary Turner

Associate Professor

English

Abbotsford campus, B379

Phone: 604-504-7441 ext. 4157

email Hilary

Biography

Taught at the University of British Columbia, Royal Roads University, Malaspina University College, Simon Fraser University, and Kwantlen College.

Education

  • PhD., McMaster University, 1992
  • MA, Queen's University 
  • BA, McMaster University

Teaching Interests

Rhetoric; Romantics; children's literature; composition

Research Interests

Coleridge; Canadian Children's Fantasy

Publications

Books:

Figurative Language: A Historical Guide. SFU Press, 2020.

Reviews:

Of The Man and the Woman in The Literary Review of Canada, 2015.

Of Chaos Inside Thunderstorms; There Are No Solid Gold Dancers Anymore; Blue Sonomain  Event, Winter 2014-15.

Of The Selected Letters of John Glassco in Canadian Literature, Summer 2014.  

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