TY - JOUR
AU - Ashcroft, Jeffrey
AB -  DOUGLAS D AVID ROY OWEN was the prime begetter of Forum for Modern Language Studies. It was he who in January 1963 first mooted the idea of a St Andrews-based journal of modern languages and literatures, who developed its concept and editorial strategy, who from the start effectively, then from 1969 formally edited the journal, and who shaped its growth to maturity, until he gradually withdrew from active involvement once Oxford University Press took over publication in 1990, in the knowledge that Forum had an assured future and had fulfilled the aspirations he cherished for it. Born in 1922 and educated in Nottingham, Roy belonged to a generation to whom modern languages, the ``modern humanities'', offered an intellectual, linguistic and cultural education which in the earlier twentieth century had begun to challenge and replace the classics. After a brief first taste of higher education, reading French at the then University College of Nottingham, he was called up for war service in the Royal Air Force. Trained as a navigator in Canada, he experienced the final phase of the Second World War in the Mediterranean sector, serving as Chief Navigation Officer based in Malta. In 1946 he joined the 
TI - D. D. R. Owen 1922–2003
JF - Forum for Modern Language Studies
DO - 10.1093/fmls/40.3.i
DA - 2004-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/d-d-r-owen-1922-2003-9RdG0slsLL
SP - i
EP - iv
VL - 40
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -