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Research Interests
I joined Queen’s University Belfast in August 2012. Prior to that, I was Visiting Professor in Irish Studies at the University of Vienna (2012) and Research Fellow at the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies at University College Dublin (2010-12).
My research interests are in contemporary Irish and Scottish writing as well as post-conflict literatures and cultures, with a focus on Northern Ireland. I have a particular interest in transnational and interdisciplinary interrelations of ethics, aesthetics, and politics and my current research explores the role of art (specifically fiction and drama) in conflict transformation processes.
My monograph Subaltern Ethics in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Literature: Tracing Counter Histories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) develops an innovative Irish-Scottish postcolonial approach by galvanizing Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics with the socio-cultural category of the ‘subaltern’. It sheds new light on contemporary Scottish, Northern Irish and Irish fiction, exploring how these writings interact with interact with recent political developments.
I have published articles on the transformative potential of drama in Northern Ireland in Contemporary Theatre Review; the representation of victimhood in Nordic Irish Studies; the interrogation of class and gender politics in Northern Irish peace process film and drama in Irish Studies Review and in an edited collection on Irish Masculinities; and representations of ‘The Disappeared’ and the performance of alternative queer memories to the conflict in (Northern) Irish drama, film, and photography in chapters and an article of the Irish University Review. I am editing a collection on The Promise of Peace: Revisiting the Northern Irish Model, which is contracted to Manchester University Press. I have been also invited to contribute to chapters to three prestigious collections with Oxford and Cambridge University Presses.
From 2013 to 2014, I led an Interdisciplinary Research Group on Art, Performance and Media in (Post-) Conflict Societies, hosted and funded by the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice.
Together with colleagues from Queen’s and elsewhere, I was co-investigator on three externally-funded interdisciplinary projects:
(1) ‘The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, 15 Years On: Revisiting the Promise of Peace’, funded by the British Academy (PI Colin Harvey, QUB);
(2) ‘LGBTQ Visions of Peace in a Society Emerging from Conflict’, funded by the AHRC/PaCCS (PI Fidelma Ashe, Universty of Ulster);
(3) ‘Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation’, funded by the AHRC/PaCCS (PR Fiona Magowan, QUB).
Teaching
I teach across a range of undergraduate models. At Stage 1, I have taught on 'English in Transition' and 'Identifying, Developing and Applying Your Skills'. At Stage 2, I teach ‘Irish Literature’. I convene the third year module ‘Contemporary Scottish and Irish Fiction: Devolutionary Identities'.
At postgraduate level, I have convened the Master's modules 'Mememory and Trauma in Irish Literature' and co-convened 'The Irish Novel in the Twentieth Century'.
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Projects
- 3 Finished
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R1644ENG: LGBTQ Visions of Peace in a Society Emerging from Conflict
Gander, C. (PI) & Lehner, S. (CoI)
21/10/2016 → 28/12/2017
Project: Research
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R1686HAP: Sounding Conflict: from resistance to reconcilliation
Magowan, F. (PI), Lehner, S. (CoI), Milton-Edwards, B. (CoI), Norman, J. (CoI) & Rebelo, P. (CoI)
18/10/2016 → 30/06/2022
Project: Research
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R1270LAW: The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, 15 Years on: Revisiting the Promise of Peace
Harvey, C. (PI), Beck, M. (CoI), Lehner, S. (CoI) & Murphy, J. (CoI)
20/06/2013 → 30/04/2014
Project: Research
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Sounding Conflict. From Resistance to Reconciliation
Magowan, F., Lehner, S., Phillips-Hutton, A., Norman, J. & Rebelo, P., 23 Feb 2023, Bloomsbury Academic. 240 p. (Sound Studies)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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'Images ... at the absolute edge of memory': memory and temporality in Hidden Symptoms, One by One in the Darkness, and Time Present and Time Past
Lehner, S., 31 May 2022, Deirdre Madden: new critical perspectives. Fogarty, A. & Morales-Ladrón, M. (eds.). Manchester University Press, p. 17-31Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Chapter 2 - Nation: Reconciliation and the Politics of Friendship in Post-Troubles Literature
Lehner, S., 01 Sept 2020, The New Irish Studies: Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions. Reynolds, P. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 47-62Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Crossings: Northern Irish Literature from Good Friday to Brexit
Lehner, S., 01 Mar 2020, Irish Literature in Transition, , 1980-2020. Falci, E. & Reynolds, P. (eds.). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, Vol. Volume 6. p. 136-151 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Devolutionary States: Crosscurrents in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction
Lehner, S., 15 Oct 2020, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction . Harte, L. (ed.). Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Prizes
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British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) Postgraduate Essay Prize 2007
Lehner, S. (Recipient), 2007
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Lehner, S. (Recipient), Jul 2015
Prize: Election to learned society
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies
Lehner, S. (Recipient), 01 Feb 2010
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Teaching Fellowship, Department of English Literature
Lehner, S. (Recipient), Sept 2009
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Activities
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Joint Bilateral Review Consultation Workshop on Irish-Scottish Academic Collaborations and Partnerships
Lehner, S. (Advisor)
20 Jan 2020Activity: Consultancy types › Work on advisory panel to industry or government or non-government organisation
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'The Light and the Lens: Streams of Damaged Consciousness in Post-Crash Irish Modernist Fiction'
Lehner, S. (Examiner)
20 Dec 2019Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
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PaCCS ‘SOUNDING CONFLICT’ SYMPOSIUM
Lehner, S. (Member of the organising committee), Magowan, F. (Member of the organising committee), Rebelo, P. (Member of the organising committee) & Captieux, C. (Organiser)
28 Nov 2019 → 29 Nov 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Beyond the Border: Irish and Scottish Studies, 1999-2019-2039
Lehner, S. (Speaker)
15 Nov 2019 → 17 Nov 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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AEL Erasmus and Study Abroad Information and Social Event
Lehner, S. (Organiser)
06 Nov 2019Activity: Other activity types › Hosting a delegation or group
Press/Media
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ARTE Reportage/Documentary: À Belfast, l’humour noir d’Eureka Street
22/11/2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Speaking about ‘Art of the Troubles: Culture, Conflict and Commemoration’ in relation to the Art of the Troubles exhibition at the Ulster Museum (with Maggie Taggart)
06/06/2014
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Impacts
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Being Human - a festival of the humanities (Northern Ireland Hub)
Schroeder, F. (Participant), Grant, D. (Participant), Taroff, K. (Participant), McLaughlin, C. (Participant), Lehner, S. (Participant), Murray, A. (Participant), Barber, S. (Participant) & Murphy, P. (Participant)
Impact: Cultural Impact, Societial Impact