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Steven Wilson is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. His research explores the ways in which modern French literature and thought, from the nineteenth century to the present, contribute to cultural understandings of disease, illness, pain, medical practice and dying/death. He is the author of The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France (Legenda, 2020) and co-editor of The Languages of COVID-19: Translational and Multilingual Perspectives on Global Healthcare (Routledge, 2022). He has also edited or co-edited seven special issues of modern languages journals on medical humanities-themed issues including autopathography, thanatology, care, and pain. In 2023, he published a ‘Manifesto for a Multilingual Medical Humanities‘ as well as his first policy paper on the importance of languages in public health.
