Susannah Wilson

Dr. Susannah Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Warwick, where she serves as Director of Student Wellbeing (Senior Tutor) and previously held roles including Head of French Studies (2020-2023) and Senior Tutor in French (2016-2018). A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), her academic journey includes a D.Phil from Oxford and a Licence ès Lettres Modernes from Bourgogne.

• BA, MA (Manchester)
• Licence ès Lettres Modernes (Bourgogne)
• D.Phil (Oxford)
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

Her research sits at the intersection of 19th-20th century French history, medical history, and gender studies, with particular focus on women's writing, psychiatric institutionalization, and cultural representations of morphine addiction.

Recent publications include A Most Quiet Murder (2025) analyzing maternal violence in Dijon, and Morphine Manias (in preparation) examining literary addiction narratives. Her work on morphine's cultural history, funded by Leverhulme and British Academy fellowships, reveals continuities between historical French opioid crises and modern addiction discourse.

• Leverhulme Research Fellowship
• British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2011-2014)
• British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award

Dr. Wilson has supervised PhD candidates including Ambra Minoli and Charles Marshall while teaching modules like Paris and the Modern Imagination and Childhood and Memory in Modern French Literature. She contributes to public engagement through media appearances (Yesterday Channel's 'Murder Maps'), BBC-covered events, and editorial board membership at Modern and Contemporary France.