Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Modernist art and literature
- Theories of sovereignty
- Philosophies of modernism
- Carl Schmitt
- 20th and 21st century literature
Current research
I am a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton.
Accepting applications from PhD students.
Email: J.G.Owen@soton.ac.uk
I am a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton.
Dr Joseph Owen is a research fellow at the University of Southampton, working in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. His projects include Poetry and Place, Neighbouring Data, Pathways to Health, and Feeling Towns, the last of which explores pride, place attachment and civic engagement in UK towns and cities. He is a specialist policy officer for Public Policy | Southampton and the co-director of the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing. Joseph has a doctorate in English literature and is turning his thesis, "Carl Schmitt, Sovereignty, Modernism", into a book. He writes arts, film, and literary criticism.