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Stephen Owen (academic)

Stephen Owen
Born (1946-10-30) October 30, 1946 (age 70)
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Nationality American
Fields Chinese poetry
Institutions Harvard University
Alma mater Yale University (B.A., Ph.D.)
Doctoral advisor David R. Knechtges
Chinese name
Chinese 宇文所安

Stephen Owen (born October 30, 1946) is an American sinologist specializing in Chinese literature, particularly Tang dynasty poetry and comparative poetics. He teaches Chinese literature and comparative literature at Harvard University and is James Bryant Conant University Professor, one of only 24 University Professorships. He is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of American Philosophical Society.

Owen graduated from Yale University in 1968 in Chinese Language and Literature, then continued on at Yale as a graduate student, receiving a Ph.D. in 1972 under Hans Frankel. He taught at Yale from 1972 to 1982, when he went to Harvard. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and held a Guggenheim Fellowship, among many other awards and honors. He was awarded Andrew Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievements Award.

Owen has written or edited dozens of books, articles, and anthologies in the field of Chinese literature, especially Chinese poetry.Harvard Magazine reported in 1998 that colleagues call Owen "a soaring and highly imaginative free spirit," comparing him to the eighth-century Chinese calligrapher Huaisu and to the foremost Tang dynasty poet, "the unfettered, convention-defying Li Bai..."

Of The Poetry of Meng Chiao and Han Yü, James J. Y. Liu, wrote, it "represents a remarkable achievement, especially for a first book... The reviewer in China Review International wrote "reading Stephen Owen's The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry shocked me, the way a seismic shift in paradigms will.



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