Stephen Owen, whose specialty is Tang dynasty poetry and Chinese literature and poetry in general, is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard. Recent books include An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 (outstanding translation, American Literary Translators Association, 1997); The End of the Chinese “Middle Ages”; Readings in Chinese Literary Thought; Mi-lou: Poetry and the Labyrinth of Desire; Remembrances: The Experience of Past in Classical Chinese Literature; The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High Tang; Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics; The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry; and The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860). He is also editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Chinese Literature.
Elected a member of the American Philosophical Society and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was honored with a Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in recognition of significant contributions to humanistic inquiry. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Visiting Scholar itinerary:
Thursday-Friday, September 24-25
Texas A&M University, College Station
Thursday-Friday, November 12-13
Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio
Thursday-Friday, February 25-26
Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York