EDUCATION
PhD Media and Communications | Media, Communications and Cultural Studies | Goldsmiths College UoL, UK | (Current)
MRES Visual Cultures | Goldsmiths College UoL, UK
MA Gender, Media and Culture | Goldsmiths College UoL, UK
BA History | University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
POSITIONS
Editorial Member | Feminist Review Journal (2021-2023)
Public Course Tutor | Masters of Sex: Feminisms, Sexuality and the Archive | (2022 - )
Associate Lecturer | Design School | LCC University of the Arts (2021 - )
Associate Lecturer | Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies | Goldsmiths College UoL (2021 - )
Project Researcher: SRG2021\211073 'Feeling, Making and Imagining Time: Everyday temporal experiences in the Covid-19 pandemic' (2021 - )
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant | Sociology Department | Goldsmiths College, UoL, London, UK
Centre Admin/ Event Producer (2017- )
Centre for Feminist Research | Goldsmiths College, UoL, London, UK
CARE Event Series Co-Curator (2020)
Centre for Feminist Research | Goldsmiths College, UoL, London, UK
Research Assistant: SG162969 ‘Cultures of Consent - Examining the Complexity of Sexual Misconduct and Power within Universities’ (2017)
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant | Media, Communications and Cultural Studies | Goldsmiths College, UoL, London, UK
Feminist Postgraduate Forum Coordinator (2017)
Centre for Feminist Research | Goldsmiths College, UoL, London, UK
WRITING/PUBLICATIONS
Turner, C. (2022) 'Out of Time? ...It Might be Political' Encountering Berlant Symposium: Thinking Otherwise, The Geographical Journal, (under peer review)
Turner, C. (2021) 'Last Night A DJ Saved my Life' Metaphor as Metamorphosis: Art Journal, Issue 1: Summer
Turner, C. (2021) 'Lets gift our labour to each other ' How to be Un- Resting - Nocturnal Unrest Research Blog, Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt am Main.
Turner, C. (2021) 'Remixing as Reincarnation: Contagious trans*reproduction in the work of boychild,' Soapbox: Journal of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam
Blackman, L. Gunaratnam Y. & Turner, C. (2018) 'Cultures of Consent: Examining the Complexity of Power and Sexual Misconduct,' Centre for Feminist Research Research Blog, Goldsmiths University of London
LECTURES
Feel Tanks as Method: Why We Can't Wait Any Longer | Centre for Feminist Research | Goldsmiths College UoL | 5 November 2020
Assigned required reading for: MC53074A/MC71232A/MC71233A: Mediating Violence: Feminist, Queer, Decolonial Perspectives 2020/2021, BA & MA module in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College UoL
CONVERSATIONS
Re-Imagining Education: A Critical History of the University | Discussant | Goldsmiths Community Solidarity Event | 7 October 2021
The F Less Travelled....with Dr Akanksha Mehta and Chloe Turner | Podcast Series | 20 September 2021 | https://anchor.fm/theflesstravelled
Pregnant Dancefloors and TransBirthings: A Conversation with Chloe Turner and D Mortimer | Stretch Marks by The Agency | Prelude to 'Where Life Begins' (2021) at Neumarkt Theatre, Zurich | 23 April 2021 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz29GGaRGBw&ab_channel=TheAgency
Decolonising Fictions, Thesis Peripheries and Disordering Whiteness | Discussant along side: Dr Les Back, Dr Mark Johnson, Professor Alan Pickering, Professor Derval Turbidy, Dr Akanksha Mehta, Jeremiah Spillane, Dr Brett St Louis and Dr Elizabeth Williams. Chaired by Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam | Graduate School Seminar | Goldsmiths College UoL | 7 December 2020 | https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=13414
INVITED SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
Feel Tank: Out of Time | Moving (across) Boundaries | Q+, University of Cambridge | 22 April 2022
Feel Tank: Feminist Burnout | MULTITUDE: Festival for Feminist and Intersectional Solidarity | Hannover, Germany | 24 September 2021
Feel Tank: Feminist Burnout | Nocturnal Unrest: A Feminist Festival for Theory, Performance and radical Flâneuserie | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 22-24 May 2021
Feel Tank: Disenchantment in Research | Methods LAB Public Programme | 19 March 2021
Feel Tank: Lockdown Lethargy | CHASE Feminist Network Sharing Research and Practice | CHASE DTP | 26-27 February 2021
Feel Tanks as Method: Overworked and Underfunded | 'Queer, feministisch, dekolonial: Intersektionale Impulse in de Geistewissenschaften' Postgraduate Departmental Series for the Institute of Theatre, Film and Media | Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 27 November 2020
Feel Tank: Exhaustion | Creating New Social Imaginaries and Critical Democratic Communities in Post-War Sri Lanka through traditional culture and art |
Social Imaginaries & Critical Democratic Communities Network, Sri Lanka | 30 October 2020
Digital Classrooms: Feel Tank: Impasse | Introduction to Feminism and Cultural Theory (2020-21) | MA Gender, Media and Culture, Goldsmiths College UoL | 29 October 2020
Digital Classrooms Feel Tank: Disenchantment | SO71087A: Introduction to Feminism and Cultural Theory (2020-21) | MA Gender, Media and Culture, Goldsmiths College UoL | 29 October 2020
Feel Tanks as Method: Institutional Bad Feelings: (Staff) | Sociology Department: RDF Research (invited by Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam and Dr Kiran Grewal) | Goldsmiths College UoL | 9 July 2020
Feel Tanks as Method : Institutional Bad Feelings: (Students) | Sociology Department: RDF Research (invited by Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam and Dr Kiran Grewal)| Goldsmiths College UoL | 1 July 2020
We owe each other everything - Trans*cestral longings and Feral desires Reading The Undercommons (2013) alongside Original Plumbing zines (2009-2019) Gender and Sexuality Seminar Series | University of Reading | 9 December 2019
Feel Tank: Burnout | Material: Creative Approaches to Research | Bath Spa University | 14 July 2018
Feel Tank Series // MäeCeramics Feel Tank #4 Irritation | Feminist Postgraduate Forum and Building Academic Communities, Goldsmiths College UoL | 28 June 2018
Public Feelings Goldsmiths: Feel Tank #3 Jealousy | Feminist Postgraduate Forum, Goldsmiths College UoL | 29 May 2018
Public Feelings Goldsmiths: Feel Tank #2 Being Stuck | Feminist Postgraduate Forum, Goldsmiths College UoL | 20 March 2018
Public Feelings Goldsmiths: Feel Tank #1 Exhaustion | Feminist Postgraduate Forum, Goldsmiths College UoL | 20 February 2018
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Feel Tanks as Method: pace, spontaneity and rhythm | British Sociological Association 2022 Conference: Building Equality and Justice Now | 20-22 April 2022
Feeling, making and imagining time: Using Mass Observation diaries and ‘feel tanks’ to explore the everyday experience of time in the Covid-19 pandemic | Research Methods Festival 2022 | 28 October 2021
There ain't no problem that I can't fix, I can do it in the mix | Following the Affective Turn Symposium | University of Brighton | 17 September 2021
An Open Source past: Sondra Perry and Remix Culture | Frames/Windows/Mirrors | NYU Cinema Studies | Tisch School of the Arts, New York University | 19-20 February 2021
I̶ ̶c̶r̶i̶t̶i̶q̶u̶e̶.̶.̶.̶I̶ ̶s̶t̶u̶d̶y̶.̶.̶.̶ I feel...I am accountable too | Undoing the Institution | Techne Conference 2020: On Transversality | 9-11 December 2020
Hormone therapy as ‘irreversible decision’/‘COVID19 magic bullet’: viral panic and trans*gender social death | Entanglement and Detachments in Global Politics | Millennium: Journal of International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | 22-24 October 2020
Remixing as Reincarnation: Trans* temporal rebellion in the performance of boychild | Revisions: Confronting the Past, Re-imagining the future | Warwick University | 1st July 2020
Trans* Exhaustion: A Monstrous Reclamation | Occupying the In-Between| M-A-R-S, Goldsmiths College UoL | 29 May 2020
Birthing Ourselves, Birthing Each Other | Trans Pregnancy: Fertility, Reproduction and Bodily Autonomy | University of Leeds |14-16 January 2020
ART/DESIGN WORK
Feeling with Francesca | Photographs | A5 zine #28 | July 2018
Slippages and Water Matters | Art Installation with Feminist Methods Lab | Goldsmiths College UoL | 15 June 2017
CONFERENCE COORDINATION
CHASE "Material Benefits of the Immaterial: Academic Publishing in the Digisphere" | CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership Event | 10 September 2021
Innovative Methodologies for Research in Fashion Studies | Virtual Conference | Centre for Critical Fashion Studies | 24 November 2020
Public Feelings, Dissident Acts: Dismantling Cultures of Sexual Harassment in Universities | Centre for Feminist Research | Goldsmiths College UoL | 18 June 2018.
Tackling Sexual Harassment, Violence and Misconduct Workshop Day | University Strategy and Review Management | Goldsmiths College UoL | 12 June 2017
Sexual Harassment Culture in Higher Education | Centre for Feminist Research | Goldsmiths College | 21 March 2017
EVENT PROGRAMMER
(differing combinations of the following skills: online organisation, website copy, liaising with speakers and guests, event publicity, social media management, online event chairing/mediating Q&A's, post-event audio/video/ written transcription, editing and publishing)
'Black Skin, Brown Masks: Carceral Progressivism and the Co-Optation of Multiracial Politics by Savannah Shange | Lecture | Goldsmiths College, UoL | 28 April 2021
The Right to the City, Global Feminist Approaches | Roundtable Discussion | Goldsmiths College UoL | 25 March 2021
'The Future of Difference' by Sabine Hark and Paula-Irene Villa | Book Launch | Goldsmiths College UoL | 8 December 2020
Transmission: Critical tactics for Making and Communicating Research edited by Kat Jungnickel | Book Launch | Methods Lab, London | 18 November 2020
Rahul Rao: Out of Time, the Queer Politics of Postcoloniality | Book Launch and roundtable | Goldsmiths College UoL | 11 September 2020
"Reimagining Care and Community: Centring Black Womxn" Rambisayi Marufu (Rambi), Farrah Riley Gray, Naima Johnson, Gelila Negussie, chaired by Dr Akanksha Mehta | Conversation | Goldsmiths College UoL | 14 August 2020
"Waterways, Circulation and Glimmers of Place" Dr Chandra Frank | Lecture| Goldsmiths College UoL | 23 July 2020
"'Poetry is not a luxury' Poems in Times of Crisis" Janel Pineda and Mackenzie Berry | Reading | Goldsmiths College UoL | 10 July 2020
"Museums Do Care: Conversations with Museum De-Tox" Dr Nirmal Puwar, Thanh Sinden, Nick Virk and Cina Aissa | Conversation | Goldsmiths College UoL | 2 July 2020
"Against Racist Ableism in the Academy" Dr Khairani Barokka | Lecture | Goldsmiths College UoL | 12 June 2020
"Weathering as Intersectional Praxis: with Astrida Neimais | Workshop | Goldsmiths College UoL | 24 October 2018
“Thinking Sex and Play, Many Splendored Things” Susanna Paasonen | Book Launch | Goldsmiths College UoL | 22 October 2018
“1949: A Debate between Claudia Jone and Simone de Beauvoir” Kathryn Sophie Bell | Lecture | Goldsmiths College UoL | 4 October 2018
“Love Letter from a Critic or the Intersectionality Wars” Feminist Theory Annual Lecture, Jennifer Nash | Lecture | Goldsmiths College UoL | 11 June 2018
“Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy” Rachel O’Neill, Book Launch | Goldsmiths College UoL | 7 June 2018
“The Right to Remain Silent” Film screening and discussion chaired by Mijke van der Drift | Screening | Goldsmiths College UoL | 31 May 2018
“Decolonising Translation, Decolonising Feminist Art Archive” Transatlantic Art Exchange Study Day Part II: Decolonising Translation, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski and Isabel Waidner | Goldsmiths College UoL | 1 March 2018
“Decolonising Translation, Decolonising Feminist Art Archive” Transatlantic Art Exchange Study Day Part I: Traces of WOCI: From Women’s Art Library to CalArts, Kathy Carbone | Goldsmiths College UoL | 17 February 2018
“Hauntings in the Archive” Film Screening and Discussion, Julia Weiger and Nina Hoechtl | Screening | Goldsmiths College UoL | 17 January 2018
“Trans* A Visual History of Gender Variance,” Jack Halberstam | Lecture | Goldsmiths College UoL | 11 December 2017
“Queerama: A Century of Gay Rights and Desire on Screen” Daisy Asquith | Screening | Goldsmiths College UoL | 4 December 2017
“Daughters of Africa: Celebrating Margaret Busby’s 50 Years in Publishing and Beyond” | Symposium | Goldsmiths College UoL | 1 December 2017