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Dr Steven Wilson

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Dr Steven Wilson

Dr Steven Wilson

School of Arts, English and Languages

My research seeks to demonstrate some of the ways in which modern French literature, from the nineteenth century to the present, can contribute to our understanding of illness, disease, pain, medical practice and experience, and death. It is situated at the interface of French Studies and the Medical Humanities and is concerned in particular with the ways in which literary configurations of the pathological body engage with medical, philosophical, religious and aesthetic languages.

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  • steven.wilson@qub.ac.uk
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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in:

  • Nineteenth-century French literature and questions of medicine, gender and/or religion
  • Modern (19th/20th/21st-century) French illness/patient narratives
  • French literature and illness, disease, pain; French Thanatology
  • Literary representations of medical practice, care and experience

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Public outreach & key achievements

From April 2018 - January 2019 I was an AHRC Leadership Fellow working on a project entitled Global Disease: Language(s) and the Literary Imagination.

Along with Prof. Pascal McKeown (School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences), I was project leader of the QUB Health Humanities interdisciplinary research network in 2014-15. I am currently a Member of the Peer-Review Committee for the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) Scheme and the British Academy's Knowledge Frontiers Programme: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects.

I am Assistant Editor of French Studies Bulletin. I am also on the executive committee of ADEFFI (L'Association des études françaises et francophones d'Irlande) and am a member of the Society of Dix-neuviémistes (having served on the Society's executive as Membership Secretary from 2012-15 and again in 2016-17), the Society for French Studies, the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF) and the Association for Medical Humanities. I am also a member of the International Health Humanities Network.


Research students

PhD area  The Mythopoetics of Bodily Representation in the Works of George Sand
Name

James Illingworth

Years of study  2014-2018
Country  England
   
PhD area  Multimodality in Contemporary Women’s French Writing
Name  Poppy Boyd
Years of study  2014-2018
Country  Northern Ireland
   
PhD area Against the Grain: The Poetics of Non-Normative Masculinity in Decadent French Literature
Name Mathew Rickard
Years of study 2015-2019
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD area Gender Experimentalism in French Women’s Writing of the fin de siècle
Name Rachael Stockdale
Years of study 2015-2019
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD area The Descendants of Eve: Rewriting the Fall in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Name Jayne Duff 
Years of study 2019-2022
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD area Religious Imagery in Nineteenth-Century French Slavery Narratives
Name Helen McKelvey
Years of study 2018-2021
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD area Loss and Mourning in Contemporary, Parental Récits de deuil 
Name Jordan McCullough
Years of study 2019-2022
Country Northern Ireland

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