Dr. Owen Holland

Biography

Owen Holland is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has authored notable works such as 'Literature Revolution: British Responses to the Paris Commune 1871' published by Rutgers University Press in 2022, and 'William Morris’s Utopianism: Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration' from Palgrave in 2017. His articles have been featured in prominent journals including Textual Practice, ELH, Victorian Poetry, and Utopian Studies. As an editor, he has contributed to the 'Journal of William Morris Studies' and published an edited selection of William Morris's political writings. Following his lectureship at the University of Edinburgh in 2022, Holland has taught at prestigious institutions like Jesus College Oxford, University College London, and Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. His research is centered on culturally contextualized materialist approaches to literature in 19th century Britain, with a focus on literary responses to the Paris Commune and the intersections of aesthetics and politics. He is also involved in various research projects, including examining heliotropic poetics and the relationship between nature and utopianism in the 19th-century novel. Holland has been active in organizing public events and continues to serve on editorial boards for literary journals.

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