LOMBARD David
Collaborateur
Faculté de Philosophie et lettres
Département de langues modernes : linguistique, littérature et traduction
Littérature anglaise moderne et littérature américaine
- ULiège address
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Bât. A2 Littérature anglaise moderne et littérature américaine
place Cockerill 3-5
4000 Liège
Belgique
- ULiège phone number
- +32 4 3665437
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- Personal website (s)
- https://www.davidlombard.net
- University degrees
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2024: Doctor in de letterkunde (KU Leuven)
2024: Doctorat en Langues, lettres et traductologie (Université de Liège)
2017: Master complémentaire en langues et littératures modernes, orientation générale, à finalité didactique (Université de Liège)
2016: Master en langues et littératures modernes, orientation générale, à finalité approfondie (Université de Liège)
2014: Bachelier en langues et littératures modernes, orientation générale (Université de Liège)
Biography
David Lombard is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) affiliated with the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), where he works within the English Literature and Cultural Studies research groups. He is also a member of the steering committee of the Leuven Center for Health Humanities and an associate researcher at ULiège. He did his Ph.D. in Anglophone literary studies as a joint degree between the universities of Liège and Leuven in Belgium (2020-24), with a dissertation titled "American Anthropocene Sublimes: Rhetorics and Narrations of Self and Environment in the Contemporary U.S. Ecobiographical Memoir." During his Ph.D. and postdoc, he has also been a visiting scholar at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2025), the Ohio State University (2023), and the University of Texas at Austin (2022). Since 2018, he has been mainly working and publishing in the fields and areas of American literature (from the 19th century to the present), life writing studies, environmental humanities, health humanities, aesthetic theory and theories of the sublime, and comparative literature. He is the author of the book Techno-Thoreau: Aesthetics, Ecology and the Capitalocene (2019), which served as an extended pilot study for his PhD project funded by the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS). In addition, his essays and book reviews have been published in edited volumes as well as in academic journals such as Épistémocritique, Miranda, the Journal of Arts and Media Studies, the Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, Local Environment, The Trumpeter, and Acta fabula. He is also the co-editor of two special issues: "The Pastoral: New Trajectories in the Anthropocene" (Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, December 2021) and "Anthropocene Sublimes" (Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, spring 2025). His current postdoctoral project, titled "The Twenty-First-Century Schizophrenia Memoir and Graphic Memoir: A Rhetorical-Narratological and Multi-Actor Materialist Approach" (2024-27), is situated in the literary health humanities and investigates the forms, functions, and relations of the historically important genre of the schizophrenia (graphic) memoir in its multiple twenty-first-century contexts.
Research field
- Langue et littérature américaines
- Histoire de la littérature
- Théorie de la littérature
- Littérature comparée
- Rhétorique
Duties or mandates
- Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) (2024-2027)
- Research Fellow Fellowship (ASP - Aspirant) at the F.R.S.-FNRS (2020-2024)
- Chargé d'enseignement en anglais en fonction principale (2017-2020) - ISLV-ULiège
- Étudiant moniteur pour le cours d'Étude de textes anglais littéraires modernes I (2016-2017) - ULiège
Scientific distinctions
- Victor Bohet Foundation Award (2025)
- Mandat de chercheur postdoctorant (junior) au FWO (2024)
- Herman van Beneden Foundation Award (2023)
- The Literary Encyclopedia Travel Award (First Place) (2022)
- The District 2160 of Rotary International Grant (2022)
- Camille HELA Foundation Award (2022)
- Mandat Aspirant Renouvellement (ASP-REN) au F.R.S.-FNRS (2022)
- Research Fellow Fellowship (ASP - Aspirant) at the F.R.S.-FNRS (2020)
- Shortlisted for the ESSE Book Award for Junior Scholars (2020)
- Prix Léon Guérin (2018)
- ASLE International Membership Grant (2018)
