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Alison Garden is a Senior Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast in the School of Arts, English and Languages. She holds a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, making her the first person in the UK from a Literary Studies background to hold such a fellowship within a Literature department and the first (and currently only) FLF in the Humanities at Queen's and in Ireland. She is also an inaugural member of Young Academy Ireland, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice.
Dr. Garden's research focuses on Irish literary, cultural and political history with particular expertise in 'the Troubles,' sexuality studies, girlhood, and the histories and cultures of love, romance and sexuality. Her UKRI Future Leaders award supports her current research project, 'Acts of Union: Mixed Marriage in Modern Ireland,' which examines love across community divides in Ireland. She is also working on her second monograph, Love Across the Divide: desire and colonial culture in Northern Ireland, 1970-present, which will be the first comprehensive study of narratives featuring romance between lovers from Northern Ireland's ostensibly antagonistic communities.
Her work has appeared in numerous publications including TIME, Aeon, The Tangerine, Al Jazeera, The Irish Times, and The Guardian, and she has produced content for the BBC. Dr. Garden is passionate about supporting Early Career Researchers and has organized #ECRday events since 2021. She is also a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and runs writing retreats for ECRs at Queen's University and Ulster University.
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (2020)
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (2018-2020)
- Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018)
- Leverhulme Trust Fellowship (2015-2016)
- Vice Chancellor's Research Prizes: Postdoctoral Researcher (runner-up, 2020)
- AHSS Researcher Of The Year (2020)
Dr. Garden supervises PhD students including Molly Quinn-Leitch on Shakespeare and Northern Ireland. She has secured multiple competitive grants including British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Grants. She actively collaborates with cultural institutions such as Kabosh theatre company and the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) to bring her research to wider audiences. Dr. Garden has organized numerous writing retreats and structured writing groups for early career researchers, emphasizing the importance of dedicated writing time in academic success.
