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Owen David Harry

Instructor

Contact Information

Telephone: 6601 4073
Email: oharry@nus.edu.sg
Office: CELC #03-29 (10 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117511)

Owen HARRY received his PhD in English Literature from the National University of Singapore, having previously completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in the United Kingdom at Bath Spa University and Cardiff University, respectively. He has taught academic writing in various capacities since 2017 to both higher education and A-Level students, most recently as a tutor at the ELTS Writing Centre at NUS. His interdisciplinary research interests are rooted in the environmental humanities, focusing primarily on how connections between humans and nonhumans are narrativized, especially within contemporary literature.

Recent Courses Taught and/or Coordinated

  • NG5001 Academic Communication for Graduate Researchers

Selected Publications (since 2019)

  • Harry, O. (2022). The Posthuman Return: Transformation through Stillness in Richard Powers’s The Overstory. In M. Stephan and S. Borkfelt (Eds.), Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises, pp. 147-162. Lanham: Lexington.
  • Harry, O. (2020). Interdependence, Impermanence, and Ecological Ethics in Gary Snyder’s Danger on Peaks. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, 33(4), 283-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2019.1689486
  • Harry, O. (2020). Book Review: Jason M. Wirth, Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 14(4), 513-514. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.38015

Conference Papers (since 2019)

  • Harry, O. “Appalachian Posthumanism: New Materialism and Religion in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior”. Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference, Banff, Canada, 28 May 2022.
  • Harry, O. “The Relational Non-Self in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being”. Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington DC, USA, 6 Jan 2022.
  • Harry, O. “Plant-thinking through Dark Green Religion in Richard Powers’s The Overstory”. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Virtual Conference, 26 Jul 2021.
  • Harry, O. “‘And Yet’: Impermanence and Ecological Ethics in Gary Snyder’s Danger on Peaks”. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference, Davis, USA, 29 Jun 2019.
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