Dr. Ruth Joy Owen

Profile

Academic position	Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fields	German Language (Linguistics),Art History,German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
Keywords	20th -century Poetry and Poetics, Contemporary Literature, GDR Literature, Ophelia in literary and visual culture, Wende Literature

Current contact address

Country	United Kingdom
City	Cardiff
Institution	Cardiff University
Institute	School of Modern Languages

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ursula Heukenkamp	Philosophische Fakultät II, Lehrstuhl für Neuere Deutsche Literatur/DDR-Literatur, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship	01/09/2002

Programme(s)

2002	Theodor Heuss Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2005	Ruth J. Owen: 'wenn ein staat ins gras beißt, singen die dichter': The Wende in Poetry. In: Silke Arnold-de Simine Memory Traces: 1989 and the Question of German Cultural Identity. Lang, 2005. 151-180
2004	Ruth J. Owen: 'Germania im Bunker': German Urban Landscapes in Contemporary Poetry. In: Julian Preece Osman Durrani Cityscapes and Countryside in Contemporary German Literature. Lang, 2004. 29-44
2004	Ruth J. Owen: The Body as Art, in Early-Twentieth-Century German Poetry. In: Monatshefte, 2004, 503-520
2004	Ruth J. Owen: Time in Volker Braun's Poetry. In: German Monitor , 2004, 197-208
2002	Ruth J. Owen: 'Eine im Feuer versunkene Stadt': Dresden in Poetry. In: Gegenwartsliteratur, 2002, 87-106
2002	Ruth J. Owen: The Colonizing West: Poetry by Heiner Müller, Steffen Mensching and Bert Papenfuß in the 1990s. In: Martin Kane Legacies and Identity: East and West German Literary Responses to Unification. Lang, 2002. 113-126