Contact details
- Name:
- Dr Thomas Owens
- Qualifications:
- D.Phil at St John’s College, Oxford
- Position/Fellowship type:
- Early Career Research Fellow
- Fellowship term:
- 04-Apr-2018 to 04-Oct-2018
- Institute:
- Institute of English Studies
- Email address:
- thomas.owens@sas.ac.uk
- Website:
- https://ies.sas.ac.uk/people/dr-thomas-owens
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- English Literature
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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Tom Owens completed his D.Phil in English at St John’s College, Oxford, in 2013. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, until September 2017, when he took up a Teaching Fellowship at UCL which ended in March this year.
He has written a monograph for Oxford University Press on the importance of astronomical ideas and discoveries to William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His most recent articles have been on: Jonathan Swift and Matthew Arnold; the Romantic reception of Michelangelo’s sonnets; and Gerard Manley Hopkins. His second book project, which he is researching at the Institute of English Studies, is an examination of the early nineteenth-century reception of seventeenth-century prose style.