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<div>His research interests are in English literature of the seventeenth and early-eighteenth
centuries, in particular the writings of John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe, and in Book
History, especially textual editing and the history of reading. He was co-founder
and from 2000 until 2011 Director of the Book History and Bibliography Research Group,
established to promote research into the production, distribution and readership of
books. From 2004 to 2007 he was Co-investigator on the AHRC-funded project,‘The
Colonial and Post-Colonial History of the Book’; from 2006 to 2009 he was Principal
Investigator and Director of the AHRC-funded project,‘The Reading Experience
Database 1800–1945’; and from 2010 to 2011 he was Principal Investigator
and Director of the AHRC-funded project,‘Developing an International Digital
Network in the History of Reading: collaboration between the UK Reading Experience
Database and invited partners’. (For the two latter projects, see<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK">www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK</a>.)</div><div> </div><div>Professor
Owens’s publications in these fields include editions of Bunyan’s <em>Grace
Abounding to the Chief of Sinners </em>(Penguin Classics, 1987); two volumes
of <em>The</em> <em>Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan </em>(Clarendon
Press, 1994); <em>The Pilgrim’s Progress </em>(Oxford World’s
Classics, 2003); and two volumes of essays, <em>John Bunyan and his England,
1628–88</em> (Hambledon Press, 1990, with Anne Laurence and Stuart Sim)
and <em>Reception, Appropriation, Recollection: Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s
Progress </em>(Peter Lang, 2007, with Stuart Sim). He is a founder editor of
the scholarly journal <em>Bunyan Studies</em>, and from 2001 to 2004 served as
President of <a href="http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~dgay/Bunyan.htm" rel="nofollow">The
International John Bunyan Society</a>.</div><div> </div><div>Much of his work
on Daniel Defoe has been carried out in collaboration with P. N. Furbank. They are
co-authors of <em>The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe</em> (Yale University
Press, 1988); <em>Defoe De-Attributions: A Critique of J. R. Moore’s Checklist </em>(Hambledon
Press, 1994); <em>A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe </em>(Pickering&
Chatto, 1998); and <em>A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe</em> (Pickering&
Chatto, 2006); and they are also co-editors of Defoe’s <em>Tour Through
the Whole Island of Great Britain</em> (Yale University Press, 1991). From 2000
to 2009 they were joint General Editors of <a href="http://www.pickeringchatto.com/index.php/pc_site/series/works_of_daniel_defoe_the"
rel="nofollow"><em>The Works of Daniel Defoe</em></a>, published in 44 volumes by
Pickering& Chatto. Professor Owens edited the volumes on <em>Dissent</em> (2000), <em>Social
Reform</em> (2000), <em>The True-Born Englishman and Other Poems</em>(2003), <em>A
New Family Instructor </em>(2006), <em>The Complete English Gentleman </em>(2007), <em>The
Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe </em>(2008), and <em>The
Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe </em>(2008).</div><div> </div><div>In
addition to these books and editions, Professor Owens has contributed some fifty or
so articles and chapters to scholarly journals and edited collections. His most recent
publications include an edition of the 1611 Authorized Version text of <em><a
href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199541171.do?keyword=978-0-19-954117-1&sortby=bestMatches"
rel="nofollow">The Gospels</a></em> for Oxford World’s Classics (2011)
and two volumes of essays in the Palgrave Macmillan series <em>The History of
Reading</em>: Vol. 1, <a href="http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=400341"
rel="nofollow"><em>International Perspectives, c.1550–1945</em></a> (2011,
edited with Shafquat Towheed) and Vol. 2, <a href="http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=400358"
rel="nofollow"><em>Evidence from the British Isles, c.1800–1945</em></a><em> </em>(2011,
edited with Katie Halsey). </div> |
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<p>Bob Owens studied English Literature at the University of Ulster and began his
postgraduate studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury. In 1978 he was appointed
to a research post at The Open University, where he received his PhD in 1984. He became
Staff Tutor and Lecturer in Literature at The Open University in London in 1986, and
Professor of English Literature in 2003. From 2000 until 2008 he was Head of the Department
of English. He retired in March 2011. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Northumbria
University.</p> |
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to a research post at The Open University, where he received his PhD in 1984. He became
Staff Tutor and Lecturer in Literature at The Open University in London in 1986, and
Professor of English Literature in 2003. From 2000 until 2008 he was Head of the Department
of English. He retired in March 2011. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Northumbria
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