Stephen Owen (sinologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Stephen Owen (sinologist)

American linguist and sinologist

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1946

Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Profession: linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Stephen Owen (born October 30, 1946) is an American sinologist specializing in Chinese literature, particularly Tang dynasty poetry and comparative poetics.
He teaches Chinese literature and comparative literature at Harvard University and is James Bryant Conant University Professor, one of only 26 University Professorships.
He is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of American Philosophical Society. Owen graduated from Yale University in 1968 in Chinese Language and Literature, then continued on at Yale as a graduate student, receiving a Ph.D.
in 1972 under Hans Fränkel.
He taught at Yale from 1972 to 1982, when he went to Harvard.
He has been a Fulbright Scholar and held a Guggenheim Fellowship, among many other awards and honors.
He was awarded Andrew Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievements Award.
He received the prestigious Tang Prize Award for Sinology in 2018.