Professor Isabelle Meuret

Isabelle Meuret is an Associate Professor and the Programme Chair of an MA Degree in Multilingual Communication at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She teaches media English, the cultures of the English-speaking world, and narrative journalism. Her research interests are in English studies, comparative literature, literary journalism, and narrative medicine. She published two books related to literature and medicine – L’Anorexie créatrice (2006) and Writing Size Zero (2007) – and is the guest editor of a theme issue of Literature and Medicine devoted to “hunger and waste” (spring 2022). She has contributed chapters in The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism (2020) and The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism (forthcoming 2022). She has also coedited L’écriture du témoignage: récits, postures, engagements (2022). As an OCLW visiting scholar, Isabelle is working on a book project called The Interpreters of Maladies: Writing Words, Creating Worlds, in Illness and Health, which she hopes to write in connection with the “Lives in Medicine project” at Wolfson College.