{"id":154,"date":"2024-12-22T20:52:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2025-07-30T21:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:05:07","slug":"dr-david-owen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/members\/research-team\/dr-david-owen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr David Owen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"923\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/597\/2024\/12\/David.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189\" style=\"width:301px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/597\/2024\/12\/David.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/597\/2024\/12\/David-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:david.owen@uab.cat\">david.owen@uab.cat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Department &amp; University<\/strong>: Department of English and German Studies, UAB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brief summary of research interests<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Owen is Associate Professor of English Literature at the&nbsp;Universitat&nbsp;Aut\u00f2noma&nbsp;de Barcelona, where he is coordinator of the BA Programme in English Studies. His main research interest is in the early works of Jane Austen, with a particular emphasis on the contribution of&nbsp;epistolarity&nbsp;to her later stylistic attainments. His publications and conference presentations are principally on these areas. However, his recent work has also included literary theory and a focus on war writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2024<\/strong> Owen, David and Cristina Pividori (Eds.)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/ReWriting-War-in-Contemporary-Literature-and-Culture-Beyond-Post-Memory\/Pividori-Owen\/p\/book\/9781032663661\"><em>Beyond Post-memory: (Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture<\/em>.<\/a>&nbsp;Routledge, Oxfordshire, UK. ISBN 9781032663661.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2024<\/strong> Owen, David. \u201cSilence, Discontinuity of Narrative, and Non-Remembrance in Christine Dwyer Hickey\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Last Train from Liguria<\/em>\u201d in Pividori, Cristina and David Owen (Eds.)&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/ReWriting-War-in-Contemporary-Literature-and-Culture-Beyond-Post-Memory\/Pividori-Owen\/p\/book\/9781032663661\">Beyond Post-memory: (Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture<\/a>.<\/em>&nbsp;Routledge, Oxfordshire, UK. ISBN 9781032663661.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023<\/strong> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-031-22144-6_2\">The Visible-Invisible Good Man in Jane Austen\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Watsons<\/em><\/a>\u201d. In: Mart\u00edn, S., Santaul\u00e0ria, M.I. (eds)\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-031-22144-6\">Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture<\/a><\/em>. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. Print ISBN 978-3-031-22143-9; Online ISBN 978-3-031-22144-6.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong> Owen, David and Pividori, Cristina (eds.).\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgescholars.com\/product\/978-1-5275-7444-1\">Theoretically Speaking about Literature: Understanding Literary Theory in the Study of Literary Works<\/a><\/em>. Cambridge Scholars Publication, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. ISBN (10): 1-5275-7444-X. ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-7444-1. (Introduction; editorial matter; chapters).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong> Owen, David and Pividori, Cristina (eds.).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgescholars.com\/product\/978-1-5275-6355-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Spectre of Defeat: Experience, Memory and Post-Memory<\/em><\/a>. Cambridge Scholars&nbsp;Publication, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. ISBN: 1-5275-6355-3; ISBN13: 978-1-5275-6355-1.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong> \u201cJohn Wyndham and His 1950s Apocalyptic Novels: Bad News for the Hoi Polloi\u201d. In Owen, David and Pividori, Cristina (Eds.),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgescholars.com\/product\/978-1-5275-6355-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Spectre of Defeat: Experience, Memory and Post-Memory<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018<\/strong> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ddd.uab.cat\/pub\/quaderns\/quaderns_a2018n25\/quaderns_a2018n25p15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The European Reception of Jane Austen\u2019s Works<\/a>\u201d.&nbsp;<em>Quaderns: Revista de Traducci\u00f3&nbsp;<\/em>25: 15-27. UAB, Barcelona, Spain.&nbsp;ISSN 1138-5790 (paper), ISSN 2014-9735 (digital),&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ddd.uab.cat\/record\/40http:\/\/ddd.uab.cat\/record\/40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/ddd.uab.cat\/record\/40<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016<\/strong> Owen, David and Pividori, Cristina (Eds.).&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brill.com\/products\/book\/writings-persuasion-and-dissonance-great-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Writings&nbsp;of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War:&nbsp;That Better Whiles May Follow Worse<\/em><\/a>. Brill-Rodopi, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-04-31491-7; ISSN 0921-2507.&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/davidowenac.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/introduction.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Introduction<\/a>;&nbsp;all editorial matter).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016<\/strong> &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/davidowenac.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/owen.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cConscripting Gentle Jane: Getting the \u2018Austen Treatment\u2019 in the Great War\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;Owen, David and Pividori, Cristina (Eds.),&nbsp;<em>Writings&nbsp;of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War:&nbsp;That Better Whiles May Follow Worse<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please also consult the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/publications\/\">Publications section<\/a>&nbsp;in this website for additional recent publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Personal Website<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/davidowenac.wordpress.com\/\">https:\/\/davidowenac.wordpress.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ORCiD<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5080-2736\">0000-0002-5080-2736<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>david.owen@uab.cat Department &amp; University: Department of English and German Studies, UAB Brief summary of research interests: David&nbsp;Owen is Associate Professor of English Literature at the&nbsp;Universitat&nbsp;Aut\u00f2noma&nbsp;de Barcelona, where he is coordinator of the BA Programme in English Studies. 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