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Personal profile
Research Interests
My research is situated at the interface of French Studies and the Global Medical Humanities and is concerned in particular with the ways in which modern French literature, from the nineteenth century to the present, contributes to cultural understandings and linguistic articulations of illness, disease, pain, medical practice and dying/death.
In recent years, my research has been funded by the AHRC (Leadership Fellowship entitled Global Disease: Language(s) and the Literary Imagination, including an outreach event on the importance of Languages and Cultural Knowledge in Global Healthcare), the British Academy (twice), the MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) and the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR).
Notable recent/forthcoming book-length publications include:
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Monograph, The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France (Oxford: Legenda, 2020) http://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Language-Disease
- L'Imaginaire médico-religieux: Modern French Literary Perspectives, guest-edited special issue (winter 2020) of Modern and Contemporary France, available here: Modern & Contemporary France: Vol 28, No 4 (tandfonline.com)
- The Care (Re)Turn in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultural Productions, special issue of Australian Journal of French Studies (with Dr Loic Bourdeau, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and Prof. Natalie Edwards, University of Adelaide), Winter 2020
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French Thanatology, special issue of L'Esprit Créateur (with Prof. Enda McCaffrey, Nottingham Trent), including my article on the representation of mortality in the work of modern French physician writers, Spring 2021
I am currently working on the following collaborative projects:
- Languages of Disease in the Contemporary Francophone World, IMLR-funded project co-directed with Dr Hannah Grayson (University of Stirling)
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The Languages of Covid-19: Implications for Global Healthcare, British Academy-funded project co-directed with Dr Piotr Blumczynski (QUB)
- The Cultural Languages of Pain, special issue of the Journal of Romance Studies (with Dr Anna Elsner, University of Zurich), to appear in Summer 2022
Contribution to International Research Networks and Organisations
I am a member of the Editorial Board of Modern and Contemporary France, having previously served as Assistant Editor of French Studies Bulletin (2017-20). I am on the Executive Committee of the Society for French Studies (SFS) and ADEFFI (Ireland's scholarly association for French and Francophone studies), and was a previous two-term executive member of the Society of Dix-neuviémistes. I am also a member of the three-year working group on medical humanities for the Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA). My work for UK research councils includes my membership of the Peer-Review College for the AHRC, the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) Scheme, and the British Academy's Knowledge Frontiers Programme: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects.
Postgraduate Research Supervision
I would be pleased to hear from anyone interested in pursuing postgraduate (MRes or PhD) research in nineteenth-century French literature, especially as it engages with questions of medicine, gender and/or religion; or in intersections of literary French Studies (19th century to the present) with the Medical Humanities (illness, disease, disability, pain, suffering, death, the clinical experience, bibliotherapy, scriptotherapy etc.).
I have supervised to successful completion PhD theses on The Mythopoetics of Bodily Representation in the Works of George Sand (James Illingworth, 2018), Multimodality in Contemporary French Women's Writing (Poppy Boyd, 2018), and Idées Masculines: The Poetics of Non-Normative Masculinity in Decadent French Literature (Mathew Rickard, 2020). I am currently supervisor on 6 PhD projects and have supervised 7 MA/MRes dissertations since 2016.
Teaching
Prior to taking up a position as Lecturer in French Studies at Queen's in January 2013, I taught in the French departments of the Universities of Manchester, Exeter and Leicester. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and the recipient of a QUB Teaching Award (2014) in the student-nominated category and a QUB Students' Union Education Award for 'Best Feedback' (2016). I was also shortlisted for the 'Excellent Use of Feedback Award' at the Students' Union Education Awards in 2019. I offer undergraduate modules on 'Paris, City of Modernity' (at Level 2), 'Ideologies of Death in Modern French Literature' (at Level 3), and a final-year filière on 'Figures de l’altérité' (Mme de Duras, Ourika; Mérimée, Carmen).
Particulars
Administrative Responsibilities
I am currently Exams Officer and Level 3 (final year) Convenor for French Studies at QUB.
Contact Details
Office: 10 University Square, Room 301
Tel: +0044 (0)28 9097 1401
Consultation hours: Tuesday 10-11 and 2-3. Appointments for meetings at other times may be made by email: steven.wilson@qub.ac.uk
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Network
Projects
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R1272AEL: The Language(s) of Covid-19: Implications for Global Healthcare
06/07/2020 → …
Project: Research
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R1749AEL: The Textual Construction of Disease: French Medico-Literary Cultures
27/03/2017 → 31/03/2018
Project: Research
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R1399MLA: French Autopathography: Disability, Disease and Disorders from First-Person Perspectives
08/04/2014 → 30/11/2014
Project: Research
Research Output
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French Autopathography
Wilson, S. (Guest ed.), 04 Jul 2016, In : L'Esprit Créateur. 56, 2, p. 1-134Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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L’Imaginaire médico-religieux: Modern French Literary Perspectives
Wilson, S. (Guest ed.), 11 Dec 2020, In : Modern and Contemporary France. 28, 4, p. 357-476 120 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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‘Dictante Dolore’: Writing Pain in Alphonse Daudet’s La Doulou
Wilson, S., 28 Jun 2018, Medicine and Maladies: Representing Affliction in Nineteenth-Century France. Leroy, S. (ed.). Leiden and Boston: Brill, p. 171-89 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Sins of the Flesh: Zola, Naturalism and the Madeleine Redemption Narrative in Nineteenth-Century France
Wilson, S., Nov 2015, In : Essays in French Literature and Culture. 52, p. 127-44 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Prizes
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ASMCF Schools' Liaison and Outreach Award
Wilson, Steven (Recipient), 24 Sep 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Election to Executive Committee of ADEFFI
Wilson, Steven (Recipient), Oct 2018
Prize: Election to learned society
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Executive Committee, Society for French Studies
Wilson, Steven (Recipient), Jul 2020
Prize: Election to learned society
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Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Wilson, Steven (Recipient), 02 Nov 2015
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Activities
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Languages of Disease in the Contemporary Francophone World
Steven Wilson (Organiser) & Hannah Grayson (Organiser)
19 Feb 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Contemporary Women's Writing and the Medical Humanities
Steven Wilson (Programme chair)
12 Jan 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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The Languages of Covid: Prophylaxis, Policy and Public Health
Steven Wilson (Organiser) & Piotr Blumczynski (Organiser)
12 Feb 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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The Languages of Covid: Healthcare Delivery in Non-Anglophone Medical Settings
Steven Wilson (Organiser) & Piotr Blumczynski (Organiser)
29 Jan 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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The Doctor-Patient Encounter / The Primal Scene of Medical Humanities: Virtual seminar of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes and Dix-Neuf, the journal
Steven Wilson (Contributor)
08 Jan 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Press / Media
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Is cara dúinn an dátheangachas nuair a théann an intinn agus an corp in aois
09/01/2019
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Linking Medicine, Narrative, and French
12/10/2016
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Impact
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Languages and Cultural Knowledge in Global Healthcare
Steven Wilson (Participant)
Impact: Societial Impact, Cultural Impact