Cameron Turner
Cameron Turner is currently a first-year MA student in the Literature and Environment program. Born in Durango, Colorado, Cameron spent the formative years of his youth exploring the native high meadows and light-soaked aspen groves of his home state and devouring book after book about gruesome Everest mishaps. He also spent an inordinate amount of time happily mucking around in the deserts and canyons of eastern Utah and northern Arizona in a sort of Wordsworthian stupor.
He completed his undergraduate work in creative writing and Italian at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and was fortunate enough to study with Jeffrey Robinson and Daniel Kim. His academic interests, which are legion and continue to worsen his myopia, focus primarily on looking at how various modernist poems (particularly texts by Mina Loy, Muriel Rukeyser, and Marianne Moore) encounter, appropriate, and re-write natural tropes and landscape. He is also interested in gender studies, critical theory, film, landscape aesthetics, and various artistic movements of the early twentieth century. He also has gotten into a strange Nordic film kick of late, which has been full of wonderful surprises and has left him wondering whether or not he should check his family tree for distant Icelandic relatives.
Cameron is also currently heir to his father's lifetime goal of compiling the "Hiker's, Backpacker's, and Paddler's Guide to Above Average Mexican Restaurants of the Great West." Please contact him at turne116@unr.nevada.edu if you'd like to contribute research.