David Lombard

David Lombard

David Lombard

David Lombard

Invited Talks

 

    • Lombard, David. “Graphic Medicine and Schizophrenia Comics.” Lecture at the University of the Balearic Islands (invited by Cristina Hurtado Botella), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, April 29, 2026.

    • Lombard, David. “Introduction à l’écocritique et à l’écopoétique et étude de cas sur le sublime.” Textes, littérature et société – 17ème-21ème siècle. Class lecture at ULiège (invited by Justine Huppe), Liège, Belgium, March 18, 2026. 

    • Lombard, David. “Quels outils pour (re)penser l’Anthropocène ? Introduction à l’écocritique et à la construction de l’écodiégèse.” Durabilité et transition. Class lecture at ULiège (invited by Mathilde Mergeai), Liège, Belgium, February 8, 2026.

    • Lombard, David. “Visual and Intermedial Poetics and Pedagogies of Schizophrenia in American Graphic Narratives.” The Graphic Novel. Class lecture at VU Amsterdam (invited by Erin La Cour), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 19, 2025.

    • Lombard, David. “Poetics and Politics of Mental Illness and Distress in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Bettering Myself.’” American Literature 1914–present. Class lecture at VU Amsterdam (invited by Berit Brink), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 10, 2025.

    • Lombard, David. “Navigating Eco-Emotions in the Anthropocene Memoir: Daniel Sherrell’s Warmth.” English Literature: Topics in Post-45 American Literature. Class lecture at KU Leuven (invited by Pieter Vermeulen), Leuven, Belgium, April 28, 2025.

    • Lombard, David. “Ecodystopia Across Media and Genres in Postwar American Literature.” Histoire de la littérature anglaise III. Class lecture at ULiège (invited by Michel Delville), Liège, Belgium, March 17, 2025.

    • Lombard, David. “Écocritique d’outre-Atlantique et d’Europe, d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. Vagues, genres et concepts.” Textes, littérature et société – 17ème-21ème siècle. Class lecture at ULiège (invited by Justine Huppe), Liège, Belgium, February 26, 2025. 

    • Lombard, David. “On the Viable Sublime: Rhetorics and Narrations of Self and Environment in the Contemporary American Ecobiographical Memoir.” Lecture at the Ohio State University / Project Narrative (invited by James Phelan), Columbus, United States, April 12, 2023.

    • Lombard, David. “Exploring the Sublime in the Contemporary American Memoir: The Case of Oak Ridge.” AMS 390: U.S. Capitalism & Culture. Class lecture at the University of Texas at Austin (invited by B. Alex Beasley), Austin, United States, November 30, 2022.

    • Lombard, David. “Exploring the Sublime in the Contemporary American Memoir: Thoreau’s Legacy and the Case of Native Alaska.” Lecture at the University of Texas at Austin (invited by Heather Houser, Hannah C. Wojciehowski, and Anna Schwartz), Austin, United States, November 29, 2022.

    • Lombard, David. “Tomorrow’s Nature: Ecodystopia and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction in the Anthropocene.” Histoire de la littérature anglaise III. Class lecture at ULiège (invited by Michel Delville), Liège, Belgium, April 25, 2022.

    • Lombard, David. “Writing the Wilderness in the Anthropocene: Thoreau’s Legacy and the Contemporary American Eco-Memoir.” English Literature: Reading Roads in American Literary Texts. Class lecture at UCLouvain (invited by Véronique Bragard), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, March 28, 2022.

    • Lombard, David. “Affect Theory in ‘The Rhetorics and Narratologies of the Sublime in the Contemporary American Environmental Novel and Memoir.’” Workshop on Affect Theory and Colonial/Postcolonial Literatures. Paper presented at ULiège / CEREP – Centre for Teaching and Research in Postcolonial Studies (invited by Delphine Munos), Liège, Belgium, March 28, 2022.

    • Lombard, David. “Écocritique, littérature et anthropocène.” Université d’été Questions environnementales et sciences humaines et sociales. Quelles perspectives ? Lecture (online) at the Université de Lorraine (invited by Béatrice Fleury), Metz, France, June 10, 2021.

    • Lombard, David. “Ecodystopia, Post-Apocalyptic Literature and the Anthropocene Aesthetic Shift.” Histoire de la littérature anglaise III. Class lecture at ULiège (invited by Michel Delville), Liège, Belgium, April 19, 2021.

    • Lombard, David. “Que nous apprend la littérature à l’âge de l’anthropocène ?” Vert Pop – Les Rencontres Écologiques d’Été. Lecture at Cité Miroir (invited by Christophe Derenne / Etopia), Liège, Belgium, August 24, 2018.