M. Alexander Turner CV

M. Alexander Turner

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My full C.V. can be accessed here.

Degrees
2020	M.F.A., University of Washington, Creative Writing (Poetry); thesis on the mode of defining in poetry and naturalist literature.
2018	B.A., Brigham Young University, Linguistics, Mandarin Chinese emphasis; minors in Editing and Chinese.
Research Interests Medieval Chinese ethnonyms Frontier and border linguistics Stress and meter Textual scholarship: typography, paleography, and bibliography Lexicography and the history of American English dictionaries Lexical variation English etymology and philology Chinese poetry, both medieval and contemporary: Li Shangyin (李商隱), Li Xianyong (李咸用), Shang Qin (商禽), Xi Murong (席慕容), Xu Shuifu (許水富)
Publications
February 2017	Search of Cowboy B: Bilabial Implosives in American English, co-authored with David Eddington. Published in American Speech, Volume 92, Issue 1, pg. 41-51, February 2017.
Presentations
2016	"In Search of the Cowboy B: Bilabial Implosives in American English”, (with David Eddington) Linguistic Association of the Southwest Conference (LASSO), University of Texas at Austin.
Experience
2018–2020	Pre-doctoral Instructor, University of Washington Designed 100- and 200-level writing courses with a linguistic, poetic, and multi-genre focus. Taught classes of 20+ students. Gave detailed feedback on students’ work.
Summer 2018	Chinese Interpreter & Guide Gave tours of Yellowstone National Park, Grand Tetons National Park to Chinese-speaking tourists for Horizon Travel Group.
2017–2018	Manuscript Proccessor, Brigham Young University Library, Special Collections Wrote author biographies and item/series descriptions. Organized collections. Standardized archival records according to Describing Archives: A Content Standard.
Other Served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in southern Taiwan (2013–2015), while learning Chinese Mandarin and Taiwanese.

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email: maturner.poetry@gmail.com