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Steven Wilson
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Steven Wilson

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Steven Wilson

Professor

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8093-0050

United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I would be delighted to speak to candidates with interests in any of the following (or connected) areas:\ \ - French Studies and the Critical Medical Humanities; \ - Post-1789 French literature on health, illness, pathology, disability, pain, end of life;\ - Literary and cultural representations of medical practice, care and experience;\ - Interactions between medicine/science and gender, race, religion, (post-)colonialism and/or ecology/environmental humanities in modern and contemporary French literature, thought or culture.

2010Research output 2010: 1Research output 2011: 4Research output 2012: 3Projects 2014: 1Research output 2014: 2Research output 2015: 2Research output 2016: 4Projects 2017: 2Research output 2018: 2Research output 2019: 1Projects 2020: 1Research output 2020: 6Research output 2021: 6Research output 2022: 5Research output 2023: 6Research output 2024: 4Research output 2025: 22025

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Personal profile

Research Interests

Steven Wilson is Professor of French Studies and the Medical Humanities in the School of Arts, English and Languages, Subject Lead for French Studies and Director of the Global Cultures of Health and Illness Research Centre. He was first appointed to a Lectureship at Queen's in 2013, having previously taught at the Universities of Manchester, Exeter and Leicester. 

Situated at the interface of French Studies and the Critical Medical Humanities,his researchexplores the ways in which modern French literature and thought, from the nineteenth century onwards, inform and respond to healthcare crises and the end of life. His 2020 monograph, The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France, was described as demonstrating "the urgency of a truly critical, comparative, and multilingual medical humanities” (Review in French Studies).

Other recent publications include a book co-edited with Piotr Blumczynski, The Languages of COVID-19: Translational and Multilingual Perspectives on Global Healthcare (Routledge, 2023; open access here), described as “a key intervention” that makes “a compelling case that any holistic response to (public) health crises [...] requires a purposeful sensitivity to language" (Review in The Translator), 7 journal special issues and a 'Manifesto for a Multilingual Medical Humanities'. His forthcoming book, French Studies and the Medical Humanities: Critical Intersections, co-edited with Larry Duffy, is under contract to appear with Liverpool University Press in 2026.

Steven's research has been funded by the AHRC (Leadership Fellow), the British Academy, the MHRA and the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS). He is a member of the Peer-Review College of the AHRC, the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) Scheme and the British Academy's Knowledge Frontiers Programme: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects. He is also an advisor to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). He collaborates in a range of international scholarly networks, including as a member of the Advisory Board of Loire Val-Health, an €11.8M research project based at the Université de Tours, and an external member of Maynooth University's Critical Medical Humanities Research Cluster (Arts and Humanities Institute). Having led multidisciplinary research projects across languages, cultures and societies, he is committed to public engagement on the importance of multilingualism and intercultural knowledge in global healthcare, including through policy work. 

Steven is President of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF) and in his third term as a member of the Editorial Board of Modern and Contemporary France, an internationally prominent peer-reviewed journal offering a multidisciplinary view of all aspects of France from 1789 to the present day. He has previously served as an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Society for French Studies (SFS), ADEFFI (Association des études françaises et francophones d'Irlande) and the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (SDN).

Postgraduate Research Supervision

Steven Wilson is a highly experienced PhD supervisor, having supervised to successful completion doctoral theses by James Illingworth (2018; with Prof. Margaret Topping), Poppy Boyd (2018; with Dr Rosalind Silvester); Mathew Rickard (2020; with Dr Claire Moran); Helen McKelvey (2021; with Prof. Maeve McCusker); Rachael Stockdale (2021; with Dr Claire Moran); Jayne Duff (2022; with Dr Claire Moran); Jordan McCullough (2023; with Dr Rosalind Silvester); and Mark O'Rawe (2024; with Dr Dominique Jeannerod).

He is currently supervising 7 PhD theses and would be pleased to hear from anyone interested in pursuing postgraduate (MRes, PhD or postdoctoral) research in nineteenth-century French literature, especially as it engages with questions of medicine, gender and/or religion; or in intersections of literary studies (19th century to the present) with the Medical/Health Humanities.

Teaching

Steven Wilson is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), which recognises outstanding achievement in teaching,  enhancing the student learning experience and academic leadership. The recipient of a QUB Teaching Award in the student-nominated category and a QUB Students' Union Education Award for 'Best Feedback', he was also shortlisted for the 'Excellent Use of Feedback Award' at the Students' Union Education Awards in 2019 and nominated for a Staff Excellence Award in 2022 in the 'Delivering Excellence in your Support to Students' category. \

Steven has been an Invited Lecturer at the Oxford Medical Humanities Summer School and an MA programme on Medical Humanities at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland. He is an External Examiner at the Universities of Birmingham (UG French), Lancaster (UG French; MLang Modern Languages & Cultures; MA Translation; MA by Research: Languages & Cultures) and Liverpool (MSc Global Healthcare), and was previously Director of Education in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen's (2021-24).

Particulars

Contact Details

Office: 10 University Square, Room 301

Tel: +0044 (0)28 9097 1401

steven.wilson@qub.ac.uk

Student Consultation and Feedback Hours: Tuesdays 1-3pm (in my office or via MS Teams).

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Projects

Wilson, S. (PI) & Blumczynski, P. (CoI)

06/07/2020 → 05/10/2021

Project: Research

Wilson, S. (PI)

11/12/2017 → 04/01/2019

Project: Research - ### R1749AEL: The Textual Construction of Disease: French Medico-Literary Cultures

Wilson, S. (PI)

27/03/2017 → 31/03/2018

Project: Research - ### R1399MLA: French Autopathography: Disability, Disease and Disorders from First-Person Perspectives

Wilson, S. (PI)

08/04/2014 → 30/11/2014

Project: Research

Research output

Wilson, S., 28 Sept 2020, Oxford: Legenda. 158 p. (Research Monographs in French Studies ; vol. 62)

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Blumczynski, P. (Editor) & Wilson, S. (Editor), 30 Nov 2022, London and New York: Routledge. 264 p. (Routledge Studies in Health Humanities)

Research output: Book/Report › Edited book › peer-review

Open Access

Wilson, S., 04 Jul 2016, 2 ed. Johns Hopkins University Press. (L'Esprit Créateur)

Research output: Book/Report › Book

9 Citations (Scopus) - ### French Thanatology

McCaffrey, E. (Editor) & Wilson, S. (Editor), 30 Mar 2021, In: L'Esprit Createur. 61, 1, 138 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

Open Access - ### Cultural languages of pain

Wilson, S. (Editor) & Elsner, A. M. (Editor), 19 Dec 2022, In: Journal of Romance Studies. 22, 4, p. 421-593 173 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

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Prizes

Wilson, S. (Recipient), 2018

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively - ### ASMCF Initiative Fund Award

Wilson, S. (Recipient), 17 May 2024

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards) - ### ASMCF Schools' Liaison and Outreach Award

Wilson, S. (Recipient), 24 Sept 2018

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Wilson, S. (Recipient), Nov 2022

Prize: Other distinction - ### Elected as Membership Secretary of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (SDN)

Wilson, S. (Recipient), 2012

Prize: Election to learned society

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Activities

Ho, C.-E. (Organiser), Kaess, K. (Organiser) & Wilson, S. (Organiser)

25 Mar 2026 → 28 Mar 2026

Activity: Other activity types › Other - ### NeMLA 57th Annual Convention, Pittsburgh

Wilson, S. (Speaker)

05 Mar 2026 → 08 Mar 2026

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference - ### Applied Science Private University Jordan

Khalifa, A.-W. (Organiser), Harding, S.-A. (Visiting lecturer), Wilson, S. (Visiting lecturer), FitzGibbon, A. (Visiting lecturer) & Bhatt, I. (Visiting lecturer)

08 Feb 2026 → 12 Feb 2026

Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution - ### PhD Internal Examiner: "Distribution of Symbolic Capital and Constitution of a Global Southern Canon: Framing the Red Sea International Film Festival"

Wilson, S. (Examiner)

15 Jan 2026

Activity: Examination types › Other examination - ### External Examiner, University of Liverpool

Wilson, S. (Examiner)

2026 → 2028

Activity: Examination types › PGT external examination

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Press/Media

Wilson, S.

09/01/2019

1 item of Media coverage

Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities - ### Linking Medicine, Narrative, and French

Wilson, S.

12/10/2016

1 Media contribution

Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities

Impacts

Wilson, S. (Participant)

Impact: Societial Impact, Cultural Impact