Susannah Wilson is Associate Professor in French Studies the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on medical cultures of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. She is the author of Voices from the Asylum: Four French Women Writers, 1850-1920 (Oxford University Press, 2010). She held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from 2011-2014 and currently holds a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a book project on the cultural history of morphine in France.