In Staff:

• List of Staff
  • Staff profiles
    • Andrew Hussey
    • Elaine Williamson
    • Simon Kitson
    • Anna-Louise Milne
    • Brigitte Rollet
    • Helene Desgraupes
    • Louise Lyle
    • Anne-Lise Chabot
    • Mat Pires
    • Emmanuelle Ravel
    • Laura Owen
    • Jeremy Stubbs
    • Elena Von Kassel Siambani

Tutor/ PhD student

l.owen@ulip.lon.ac.uk

Research interests

20th entury avant-gardes (surrealism, situationism, Dadaism) and literature
The writings and theory of Georges Bataille
Postcolonial theory and the Maghreb

Teaching specialities

Translation, 20th century literature and theory, Postcolonialism

Publications

• "Screening Tangier: The Arab City in Western Cinema" Joint paper with Professor Andrew Hussey ’Performing Tangier’, published as part of conference proceedings, Tangier, February 2007
• "Another city for another life, Joe Orton and sexual tourism." Performing Tangier: Borders, Beats and Beyond. May 2008
• Book review of Stuart Kendall's Georges Bataille (Reaktion books 2007) to be published in the journal Modern and Contemporary France, 2009.