It is with great regret that the School announces the death of our colleague Dr Siobhán Kilfeather.  Siobhán died on 7 April 2007 in Belfast after a short illness.

Siobhán was a Senior Lecturer in English at Queen's, having come to us from the  University of Sussex.  She was a much-loved teacher and internationally-regarded scholar, renowned for her intelligence and wit by her many friends and former colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic.  As a lively and entertaining presence in the School, she demonstrated huge reserves of energy and strength of character in her day-to-day activities on campus.  Her teaching and research covered many important areas in the modern English Studies curriculum because of her wide-ranging interests in inter-disciplinary matters.  Siobhán's published writings include her contribution to the Field Day Project, modern critical editions of Maria Edgeworth and other shorter contributions that demonstrate her keen and abiding fascination with contemporary critical debate in the fields of Eighteenth-century, Romantic and Victorian literature and culture, Irish Studies, Gender Studies, Post-colonialism and Cultural Studies generally.

Siobhán somehow combined a hectic and successful academic career with an equally busy life at home with Peter, Constance and Oscar.  She will be sadly missed by colleagues across the University and by her many undergraduate and postgraduate students.  A memorial service was held in Belfast on Monday, 16 April, followed by burial in her beloved Shropshire on Thursday, 19 April.