Owen, Ruth J., review of Benedikt Engels, Das lyrische Umfeld der 'Danziger Trilogie' von Günter Grass, in Modern Language Review, 102.2 (2007), pp. 582–83, doi:10.2307/20467391

Owen, Ruth J., ‘Voicing the Drowned Girl: Poems by Hilde Domin, Ulla Hahn, Sarah Kirsch, and Barbara Köhler in the German Tradition of Representing Ophelia’, in Modern Language Review, 102.3 (2007), pp. 781–92, doi:10.2307/20467434

Owen, Ruth J., review of Kai Bremer, Fabian Lampart, Jörg Wesche, Schreiben am Schnittpunkt: Poesie und Wissen bei Durs Grünbein, in Modern Language Review, 104.1 (2009), pp. 287–89, doi:10.2307/20468239

Owen, Ruth J., review of Charlotte Ryland, Paul Celan's Encounters with Surrealism: Trauma, Translation and Shared Poetic Space, in Modern Language Review, 106.3 (2011), pp. 923–24, doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.106.3.0923

Owen, Ruth J., review of Frieder von Ammon, Peer Trilcke, and Alena Scharfschwert, Das Gellen der Tinte: Zum Werk Thomas Klings, in Modern Language Review, 108.4 (2013), pp. 1324–25, doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.108.4.1324