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English Literature, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Biography

I am an Associate Professor (Professor agregat) in English Literature with the Department of English and German Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where I have been teaching since 2002.

I teach literatures in English, and the history and culture of English-speaking countries.

I give classes in the BA degree programme and on the Literature section’s MA in Advanced British Literary and Cultural Studies. I also give teacher-training sessions on English Literature within the UAB’s M.Ed in Foreign-Language Teaching for Secondary Education, and in the UAB’s M.Ed in CLIL and FLE, both of these in collaboration with the UAB Faculty of Education.

My teaching covers all periods of literature, from medieval through to contemporary, including aspects such as literary theory, as well as survey courses on British/Irish and US history and culture, though most particularly I teach British literature of the C18-C19.

My publications—both critical studies and edited works—are principally focussed on the early writing of Jane Austen and Anna Maria Porter, and, more generally, are concerned with aspects of juvenilia literature, aiming most especially to contribute towards providing fuller academic attention to such work. However, I have also published on war writing, literary theory and the use of translation in teaching language and literature.

Activities

Employment (1)

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Cerdanyola del Vallès/Bellaterra, Catalonia, ES

2002-04-01 to present | Lecturer in English Literature (Department of English & German Studies)
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David Owen

Education and qualifications (4)

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Bellaterra, Catalunya, ES

2003-10-01 to 2006-06-02 | Ph.D. (Filologia Anglesa i Germanística)
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Bellaterra, Catalunya, ES

2001-10-01 to 2003-09-05 | M.A. (Filologia Anglesa i Germanística)
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Bellaterra/Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, ES

1992-10-01 to 1993-06-30 | Postgraduate Certificate in Translation Theory (Faculty of Translation and Interpreting)
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University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, GB

1980-10-01 to 1984-06-30 | MA (English Literature & Language)
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Professional activities (5)

The Journal of Juvenilia Studies: Nippising, CA

2018-06-15 to present | Co-Editor & Editorial Advisory Board
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International Society of Literary Juvenilia: Nipissing, CA

2018-06-15 to present | Vice Chair
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The Juvenilia Press: Sydney, AU

2017 to present | Editorial Advisory Board
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European Academic Research: Bucharest, RO

2016-01-01 to present | International Advisory Board
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Cerdanyola del Vallès/Bellaterra, Catalonia, ES

2007-12-14 | Extraordinary Award for Doctoral Studies (English & German Studies)
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Funding (3)

Rewriting War; the Paradigms of Contemporary Fiction in English

2018 to 2021 | Grant
Research Institute of Economy, Industry & Competitiveness (Madrid, ES)
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FF12017-85525-P

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Between the Lines: Comprehensive Reading of Literary Texts in a Foreign Language

2010 to 2011 | Grant
Generalitat de Catalunya (Barcelona, Catalonia, ES)
Part of GRANT_NUMBER:

MQD 2010-00121

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Millora de la metodologia docent i de l’avaluació de l’aprenentatge en totes les asignatures específiques del grau en Estudis Anglesos

2009 to 2010 | Grant
Generalitat de Catalunya (Barcelona, Catalonia, ES)
Part of GRANT_NUMBER:

MQD2009-00082

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David Owen

Works (50 of 69)

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“The Visible-Invisible Good Man in Jane Austen’s The Watsons”.

Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture. (Martín, S., Santaulària, M.I. , eds). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. Print ISBN 978-3-031-22143-9; Online ISBN 978-3-031-22144-6 (2023).
2023-03-07 | Book chapter
AGR:

ISBN: 978-3-031-22144-6

Contributors: David Owen
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"Structuralism"

Theoretically Speaking about Literature: Understanding Literary Theory in the Study of Literary Works
2021-12-21 | Book chapter
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Theoretically Speaking about Literature: Understanding Literary Theory in the Study of Literary Works

Cambridge Scholars Publication
2021-12-21 | Edited book
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“Liberal Humanism”

Theoretically Speaking about Literature: Understanding Literary Theory in the Study of Literary Works
2021-12-21 | Book chapter
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"John Wyndham and His 1950s Apocalyptic Novels: Bad News for the Hoi Polloi"

The Spectre of Defeat in Post-War British and US Literature: Experience, Memory and Post-Memory
2021-01-28 | Book chapter
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The Spectre of Defeat: Experience, Memory and Post-Memory

Cambridge Scholars Publication
2021-01-28 | Edited book
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All Stressed Out: Poetic Rhythm in English

Sharing Teaching Experiences, Teaching English Language, Literature and Culture, Volume Four
2020 | Research tool
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The Stylistic Construction of Fear and Anxiety in Christine Dwyer Hickey’s Last Train from Liguria

Congreso Lingua e Violencia. University of Vigo, Spain
2020 | Conference paper
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David Owen

(Forthcoming) Entry on Walsh Colville, or, A Young Man’s First Entrance into Life (Anna Maria Porter) in The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820.

Cambridge University Press
2020-12-30 | Encyclopedia entry
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All Stressed Out: Poetic Rhythm in English

Talk, TELLC: Teaching Language, Literature and Culture. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2019 | Lecture
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“An Echo that Still Can’t Be Still”: The Repercussions of Border in Christine Dwyer Hickey’s Last Train from Liguria

Research Seminar: Border-Crossing Experiences in Contemporary War Literature. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2019 | Conference paper
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Persistence and Resistance: New Research in English Studies

Cambridge Scholars Publication
2018 | Edited book
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"It Ain't Necessarily So": Reviewing the Critical Orthodoxy on Austen’s Early Narrative Form

Minority Voices:  Writing by Children and Adolescents from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. University of Durham, UK
2018 | Conference paper
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In Absentia sed in Propria Persona: Teacher-Produced Podcasts

Sharing Teaching Experiences, Teaching English Language, Literature and Culture, Volume Three
2018 | Research tool
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Laurie Langbauer. The Juvenile Tradition: Young Writers and Prolepsis, 1750-1835

The Journal of Juvenilia Studies, Vol. 1
2018 | Book review
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The European reception of Jane Austen’s works

Quaderns
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85058622817

Part of ISBN:

20149735 11385790

Contributors: Owen, D.
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The European Reception of Jane Austen’s Works

Quaderns: Revista de Traducció 25: 15-27
2018 | Journal article
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All Things to Everyone? Lady Susan and the ‘Real’ Jane Austen

Nexus, The Journal of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies
2017 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1697-4646
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In Absentia sed in Propria Persona: Teacher-Produced Podcasts

Talk, TELLC: Teaching Language, Literature and Culture. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2017 | Lecture
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Jane Austen’s European Reception

Plenary Lecture, Jane Austen in Translation. University of Vic
2017 | Conference paper
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Language Centres as translation-service providers: Joining forces at European level

Language Learning in Higher Education
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85031787215

Part of ISBN:

21916128 2191611X

Contributors: Harvey, J.; Owen, D.; Palumbo, G.
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Language Centres as translation-service providers: Joining forces at European level

Language Learning in Higher Education. 7(2): 451-459
2017 | Journal article
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Literature Makes Nothing Happen

Inaugural Lecture, MA in Content and Language Integrated Learning. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2017 | Conference paper
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What was Novel about the Novel?

Invited-lecturer Programme for Humanities. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
2017 | Lecture
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“It’s Sentimental, the Continental": British Travel Writing in the Era of the Sentimental Novel

Els Juliols (UB Summer Out-reach Programme). University of Barcelona, Spain
2017 | Lecture
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“Watching Literature Happen: Anna Maria Porter’s Walsh Colville and Jane Austen’s Lady Susan”

Owen, David and Peterson, Lesley (Eds.). Home and Away: The Place of The Child Writer
2016 | Book chapter
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Conscripting Gentle Jane: Getting the Austen treatment in the great war

Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War: That Better Whiles May Follow Worse
2016 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85007062139

Contributors: Owen, D.
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Conscripting Gentle Jane: Getting the ‘Austen Treatment’ in the Great War

Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War: That Better Whiles May Follow Worse
2016 | Book chapter
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Home and Away: The Place of The Child Writer (2016).

Owen, David and Peterson, Lesley (Eds.)
2016 | Edited book
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Of Sticks and Carrots in the Literature Class: ‘Yes’ to Reading Tests; ‘No’ to Exams

Sharing Teaching Experiences, Teaching English Language, Literature and Culture, Volume Two
2016 | Research tool
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David Owen

Of Sticks and Carrots in the Literature Class: ‘Yes’ to Reading Tests; ‘No’ to Exams

Talk, TELLC: Teaching Language, Literature and Culture. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2016 | Lecture
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David Owen

The Epistolary Origins of Jane Austen’s Free Indirect Style

AEDEAN Conference. University of Zaragoza, Spain
2016 | Conference paper
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Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War

Owen, David and Pividori, Cristina (Eds.). Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War: That Better Whiles May Follow Worse.
2016 | Edited book
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Writings of persuasion and dissonance in the Great War: That better whiles may follow worse

Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War: That Better Whiles May Follow Worse
2016 | Book
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2-s2.0-85007047672

Contributors: Owen, D.; Pividori, C.
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David Owen via Scopus - Elsevier

Accuracy, Relevance and Voice: Evaluating First-Year Students’ Work in L2 English Literary Studies

Sharing Teaching Experiences, Teaching English Language, Literature and Culture, Volume One
2015 | Research tool
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The Porter Sisters’ Early Years

The Barcelona Literary Juvenilia Conference. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2015 | Conference paper
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David Owen

The Search after Happiness: A Pastoral (Hannah More)

Owen, David; Prunean, Alexandra; Sánchez, Noelia; Vadidar, Reyhane (Eds.), The Search after Happiness: A Pastoral (Hannah More).
2015 | Edited book
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Walsh Colville, or, A Young Man’s First Entrance into Life (Anna Maria Porter)

Owen, David. Walsh Colville, or, A Young Man’s First Entrance into Life, (Anna Maria Porter). Ed. Critical and Annotated Edition. The Edwin Mellen Press, New York.
2015 | Edited book
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Walter Scott and the Porter Sisters: “Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot?”

AEDEAN Conference. Universidad de Deusto, San Sebastián, Spain
2015 | Conference paper
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Accuracy, Relevance and Voice: Evaluating First-Year Students’ Work in Literary Studies

Talk, TELLC: Teaching Language, Literature and Culture. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2014 | Lecture
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David Owen

The English Poetry of WW1

Invited-lecturer Programme for Humanities. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
2014 | Lecture
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“(Mal)Interpretando el Deseo Femenino: Control e Independencia de la Mujer en el Siglo XVIII (Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, 1747-48)

Figuras del Deseo Femenino: 12 Representaciones de la Mujer en la Literatura Occidental. (“Critica y Estudios Literarios”). Ed. Curbet, Joan. Ediciones Catedra, Madrid, Spain.
2014 | Book chapter
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Anna Maria Porter's Walsh Colville

Literary Juvenilia in the Twenty-First century. University of Durham, UK
2013 | Conference paper
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Sense or Sensibility? Two Discrepant Approaches to the Novel in the Late 1790s

AEDEAN Conference. University of Oviedo
2013 | Conference paper
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“Writing by Numbers: Disavowing Literary Tradition in All Hail the New Puritans”

In book: The New Puritan Generation, Publisher: Gylphi (UK), Editors: Fernández, José Francesco, pp.47-65
2013-10 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-1-78024-015-2
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“The Failed Text that Wasn’t: Jane Austen’s Lady Susan”

2013-07 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-1-4438-4669-1
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‘“Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so!”: A Practical Approach to Teaching Austen’s Pride and Prejudice’

ISBN: AE-2013-13002502 In book: Reading Between the Lines: Discussing Narration in the Literature Class, Publisher: Editorial Punctum, Catalonia, Spain, Editors: A. Monnickendam, David Owen, Cristina Pividori, pp.65-75
2013-06 | Book chapter
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The ‘Failed’ Text that Wasn’t: Jane Austen’s Lady Susan

The Failed Text. University of Granada, Spain
2012 | Conference paper
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‘“Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so!”: A Practical Approach to Teaching Austen’s Pride and Prejudice’

Reading Between the Lines. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2012 | Conference paper
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“Into the Engine Room: An Inter-University Literature-Teaching Project Focussing on Narrative”

Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature 12/2012; 5(4):1-19.
2012-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2013-6196
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