EN. David Lombard is a research fellow at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research
(F.R.S.-FNRS) and a PhD candidate in literary studies at the ULiège and KU Leuven (joint
degree), where he is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics (CIPA),
Intersections, and the Leuven English Literature Research Group. He mainly works and has
published in the fields of contemporary literature, American studies, environmental
humanities, narratology, and rhetorical theory. He is the author of the book Techno-Thoreau:
Aesthetics, Ecology and the Capitalocene (2019), which served as an extended pilot study for
his broader PhD project on the rhetorics and narratologies of the sublime in the contemporary
American environmental memoir (2020-2024). His essays, editing work, and book reviews
have also been published in academic journals such as the Metacritic Journal for
Comparative Studies and Theory, the AM Journal of Arts and Media Studies, The Trumpeter,
Local Environment, Acta fabula, and Ecocene.
IT. David Lombard è ricercatore presso il National Fund for Scientific Research
(F.R.S.-FNRS) in Belgio, candidato dottorando in letteratura presso l’Università di Liegi e l’Università di Leuven,
dove è ricercatore per il CIPA (Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics), per Intersections e per il Gruppo di Ricerca di Letteratura inglese di Leuven. I suoi campi di studio includono la letteratura contemporanea, gli American Studies, il rapporto tra scienze umane e ambiente, la narratologia e la retorica. È autore del libro Techno-Thoreau:
Aesthetics, Ecology and the Capitalocene (2019), che è servito come studio preliminare per un più ampio progetto di dottorato
(2020-2024) sulla retorica e la narratologia del sublime nei memoir ambientalisti americani. Suoi saggi, curatele e recensioni sono stati pubblicati su riviste accademiche come Metacritic Journal for
Comparative Studies and Theory, AM Journal of Arts and Media Studies, The Trumpeter,
Local Environment, Acta fabula e Ecocene
