David Lombard

David Lombard

David Lombard

David Lombard

Conference Papers

 

    • Lombard, David. “A Rhetorical-Narratological and Multi-Actor Materialist Analysis of Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias (2019).” Paper presented at a Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, April 23, 2025.
    • Lombard, David. “Investigating the Institutional Dimensions of Autopathographies: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Schizophrenia Memoirs.” Paper presented at the Health Humanities Consortium 2025 Conference, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States, April 4, 2025.
    • Lombard, David. “‘Some Truths that Were Too Difficult and Frightening to Know’: the Ethics and Affordances of Contemporary Schizophrenia Memoir.” Paper presented at the conference “What Remains? Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis,” organized by Mid Sweden University, Stockholm University, Károli Gáspár University, and KU Leuven, Stockholm Waterfront Congress Center, Stockholm, Sweden, August 21, 2024.
    • Lombard, David. “Clinical and Cultural, or ‘Fixed’ and Fragmented Selves: A Rhetorical-Narratological and Materialist Analysis of Schizophrenic Identity in Contemporary Memoir.” Paper presented at the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) 2024 World Conference, The University of Iceland, Iceland, June 13, 2024.
    • Lombard, David. “The Material, Didactic and Intermedial Dimensions of Schizophrenia as ‘Lived Experience’ in Elyn R. Sacks’ The Center Cannot Hold and Olivier and Clem Martini’s Bitter Medicine.” Paper presented at “Lived Experiences: International PhD Conference,” Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, June 7, 2024.
    • Lombard, David. “‘He Wanted to Live’: Hunting, Local Fictionality, and the Sublime in Gerald Vizenor’s Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors.” Paper presented at the conference “American Novelists’ Autobiographical Acts: Nonfictional Disruptions,” Aix-Marseille Université, France, July 6, 2023.
    • Lombard, David. “The Sublime as a Rhetorical Strategy in the Contemporary American Ecobiographical Memoir.” Paper presented at the 8th Rhetoric in Society Conference, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany, June 3, 2023.
    • Lombard, David. “Pluralizing the Sublime in the Post-Romantic American Memoir: From the Visual to the Haptic.” Paper presented at the American Comparative Literature Association’s (ACLA’s) 2023 Annual Meeting, Chicago, United States, March 18, 2023.
    • Lombard, David. “Le sublime en tant que concept rhétorique et narratologique dans les mémoires et le roman contemporains américains.” Paper presented at the “Journée des doctorants 2022 de l’École doctorale près le FNRS « Langue, lettres & traductologie » (ED3bis),” Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, May 23, 2022.
    • Lombard, David. “Introductory Presentation: The Sublime in the Anthropocene.” Paper presented at the conference “The Sublime in the Anthropocene: Materiality, Agency, and Affect / Le sublime dans l’anthropocène : matérialité, agentivité, et affect,” ULiège, Liège, Belgium, March 11, 2022.
    • Lombard, David. “Representing the (In)Visible Through the Sublime: A Rhetorical and Narratological Analysis of Atomic Power in George Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57.” Paper presented at the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education’s (BAAHE’s) annual conference, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, December 3, 2021.
    • Lombard, David. “Rewriting the Anthropocene Imaginative Crisis Through the Sublime: A Rhetorical and Narratological Analysis of Atomic Power in Contemporary U.S. Literature.” Paper presented at the conference “Crises: Climate and Critique in the Literature and Arts of the English-Speaking World after 1800,” Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, November 18, 2021.
    • Lombard, David. “Restoring the Farm: From the Silent Toxic Sublime to a Post-Agricultural Sublime of Presence in Contemporary American Non/Fiction.” Paper presented at the international conference “Sacrifice Zones: Grief and Hope in Contemporary Literature,” UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, October 1–2, 2021.
    • Lombard, David. “The Rhetorics and Narratologies of the Sublime in Contemporary American Memoir: Mountains, Alaska, and the Farm.” Paper presented (online) at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment’s (ASLE’s) 2021 Virtual Conference, August 3, 2021.
    • Lombard, David. “Revisiting America’s Last Frontier: Richard Proenneke’s and Ernestine Hayes’s ‘Worlds’ and Ecological Sublimes.” Paper presented (online) at the 18th Annual Interdisciplinary IU Graduate Student Conference of the Department of English of the Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University Bloomington, April 17, 2021.
    • Lombard, David. “From Cheechako to Koviashuvik and Shahóon: Wilderness and the Alaskan Sublime in Ken Ilgunas’s Walden on Wheels and Ernestine Hayes’s Blonde Indian.” Paper presented (online) at “Digital BAAS 2021 – The British Association for American Studies 66th Annual Convention,” April 9, 2021.
    • Lombard, David. “Facing the Imaginative Challenges of the Anthropocene: A Rhetorical and Narratological Analysis of the Toxic Sublime in Contemporary U.S. Literature.” Paper presented (online) at the X Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture – Ecoculture, Lisbon, Portugal, July 10, 2020.
    • Lombard, David. “The Imaginative Challenges of the Anthropocenes: A Rhetorical and Narratological Analysis of the Sublime in Contemporary U.S. Literature.” Paper presented (online) at the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts’ (SLSAeu’s) annual conference: ANTHROPOCENES: Reworking the Wound, Katowice, Poland, June 19, 2020.
    • Lombard, David. “Reading the Sublime: Or, What Can Rhetoric Mobilizations of the Sublime Do for Narrative (Identity) and Ecocriticism.” Paper presented at the Winter School “Stories to Live By: Narrative and Identity,” University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands, January 22, 2020.
    • Lombard, David. “The Toxic Sublime in U.S. Literature: Self, Senses and Environment.” Paper presented at the London Center for Interdisciplinary Research’s International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies, University of London, London, United Kingdom, October 19, 2019.
    • Lombard, David. “U.S. Literature and the Toxic Sublime: Technology in the Pastoral Garden.” Paper presented at the 8th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE) – The Garden: Ecological Paradigms of Space, History, and Community, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, September 29, 2018.
    • Lombard, David. “Dwelling on Dwelling: Home and Nature in (Native) American Literature.” Paper presented at The University of Lisbon Center for English Studies’ RHOME 2 Conference: Representations of Home 2 – Conflict and/or (Be)Longing: Thinking with Stories and Images, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, November 16, 2017.
    • Lombard, David. “U.S. (Post-)Pastoral Non-Fiction and the Toxic Sublime.” Paper presented at Jagiellonian University’s conference “New Perspectives in English and American Studies,” Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, April 20, 2017.
    • Lombard, David. “Planned Obsolescence, Nature and the Self in American Literature.” Paper presented at the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Poétique Appliquée’s (CIPA’s) conference “Planned Obsolescence: Text, Theory, Technology,” Uliège, Liège, Belgium, December 8, 2016.
    • Lombard, David. “From Silenced Nature to Worldness in American Literature.” Paper presented at BAAHE’s annual conference, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, December 2, 2016.