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Rosalind Silvester is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages at Queen's University Belfast's School of Arts, English and Languages. She specializes in contemporary literature, migratory studies, and Francophone-Chinese writing, with a focus on intermediality and transnationalism. Her research often intersects art installations, philosophy, and film criticism, applying interdisciplinary methods to explore themes of cultural identity and non-belonging. Silvester has organized international colloquia featuring Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian and artist Chen Xuefeng, leading to influential edited volumes and journal issues. She teaches undergraduate modules on Francophone drama, migration narratives, and women’s writing, and supervises postgraduate research in areas like Haitian women’s literature and environmental art.
Her research interests span contemporary Francophone Chinese literature, migration studies, and intermedial art practices. Notable works include her monograph on Ying Chen’s aesthetics of non-belonging (2020) and a special issue on Franco-Chinese convergences (2022). Silvester actively participates in academic networks, reviewing for journals like Modern & Contemporary France and contributing to conferences such as the ADEFFI Annual Conference. Despite no formal awards listed, her work has been cited as a milestone in Franco-Chinese literary studies.
