sentences:  Turner gained a master's degree from Queen's University, Canada, and his doctorate from the University of East Anglia, in the UK.He taught at the Queensland Institute of Technology (now Queensland University of Technology), the West Australian Institute of Technology (now part of Curtin University), and was Professor of Cultural Studies in the English Department at the University of Queensland before becoming the founding Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies in 1999.He was elected an ordinary member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1997, and was elected president in 2004.