Margaret Owens
Associate Professor

Dr. Margaret Owens

She/her/hers

Positions

Full-time Faculty
Faculty of Arts and Science - Fine Arts and English Studies - English Studies

Education

PhD, English, University of Toronto
1994
MA, English, University of Toronto
1987
BA (Honours), English & Anthropology, Trent University
1986
Areas of specialization
Early Modern Literature & Culture
Literary Theory
Gender & Queer Studies
Film

Teaching Areas

Undergraduate Programs

  • English Studies

Research

Research Interests

  • Bodies and body issues in literary and visual culture
  • Effigies and simulated humans from early modern drama to 20th & 21st-century film
  • Gender performance, Drag, & Transgender narratives
  • Photography & Literature
  • Venice in Literature

Open to Media Inquiries

Publications

Owens, Margaret E.  Stages of Dismemberment: The Fragmented Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Drama. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2005. 

Owens, Margaret. “Pygmalion Nightmares: Uncanny Doubles and Commodified Spaces in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933).” New Approaches to The Doppelganger in Literature and Culture, edited by Pamela Bedore and Anita Duneer, Routledge, 2026.  

Owens, Margaret. “Teaching The Roaring Girl in a Post-Binary World.” The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024, edited by William David Green, Anna L. Hegland, and Sam Jermy. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 136-52. 

Owens, Margaret.  “Paris is Burning for Shakespeare.” Shakespeare en Devenir, No. 17 (Feb 2024) Owens, Margaret E.  “Photography as Automaton: Roland Barthes and Fellini’s Mechanical Doll.”  CoSMo: Comparative Studies in Modernism.  No. 14 (Spring 2019): 53-65.  Owens, Margaret E.  “The Revenger’s Tragedy as Trauerspiel.”  Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900  55.2 (Spring 2015): 403-21.