Dr Owen Stampton
School of East Asian Studies
Research Associate
Full contact details
School of East Asian Studies
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
- Profile
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Owen Stampton is a post-doctoral research associate at the Centre for Korean Studies working on Korean Literature. His main research areas are poetry and drama. Owen’s current research explores the transitional era of the late 19th to the early 20th century, primarily focusing on two areas:
Sinitic poetry or hansi (漢詩) and the birth of drama as a modern literary genre.
At the Centre for Korean Studies he is working on his first monograph: Towards a New Horizon: Sinitic Poetry in Twentieth
Century Korea.Before joining the team at Sheffield, Owen taught at the of University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada and at the School or Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.
- Qualifications
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Education: BA – Sheffield, MA – AKS, PhD – SOAS
- Research interests
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Korean Literature, Poetry and Drama
- Publications
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“The Apotheosis of Landscape: Sacred Space, Symbolic
Landscape and National Consciousness in Ch’oe Nam-son’s
T’aebaek Poetry.” Journal of Korean Studies, vol. 29 no. 2
(2024): 171-199.
“Staging 'Civilisation and Enlightenment' - Yi Kwang-su's
Kyuhan and the Communicability of Modern Theatre Space.”
Korean Studies, vol. 48 (2024): 128-165.
“Korea’s First Modern Play? An Introduction and Translation of
Yi Kwang-su’s Kyuhan.” Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 39 no. 1
(2022): 58-82.
"National Division, Rural Lives and Anti-War Sentiment in Cha
Beom Seok's Forest Fire." The Review of Korean Studies, vol.
21 no. 1 (2018): 7-31.