David Lombard is a junior postdoctoral researcher at the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) affiliated with the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), where he works at the English Literature and the Cultural Studies Research Groups and is a member of the steering committee of the Leuven Center for Health Humanities. He did his Ph.D. in 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. situated at the intersection of American literary studies, narratology, and the environmental humanities, he was also a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin (fall 2022) and the Ohio State University, at Project Narrative (spring 2023). Since 2018, he has been mainly working and publishing in the fields and areas of contemporary (American) literature and culture, life writing and memoir studies, environmental humanities, health humanities, aesthetic theory and theories of the sublime, Henry David Thoreau and American transcendentalism, rhetoric and rhetorical narratology, and comparative literature. He is the author of the book Techno-Thoreau: Aesthetics, Ecology and the Capitalocene (Macerata: Quodlibet, 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 literary-cultural studies and the health humanities and investigates the forms, functions, and cultural and institutional relations of the historically important genres of the schizophrenia memoir and graphic memoir in their multiple twenty-first-century contexts.