Professor Marion Turner

Marion Turner has published several award-winning books including Chaucer: A European Life  (Princeton, 2019) and The Wife of Bath: A Biography (Princeton, 2023). She curated a major exhibition at the Bodleian Library, Chaucer Here and Now, in 2024. 

She is deeply committed to public engagement, working regularly with schools and with adult education as well as talking at literary festivals such as Hay on Wye, the Edinburgh festival, the Cheltenham festival, and the Oxford literary  festival, and on the radio, e.g. Start the Week, the Today programme, Women’s Hour, You’re Dead to  Me, Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes. She holds the senior chair in medieval literature at the University of  Oxford – the J.R.R. Tolkien Professorship of English Literature and Language.