David Lombard is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and affiliated with KU Leuven (Belgium), where he works with the English Literature and Cultural Studies Research Groups. He is also a member of the steering committee of the Leuven Centre for Health Humanities and an associate researcher at ULiège. His current research lies at the intersection of comparative literature, life writing studies, comics studies, graphic medicine, and the literary health humanities. His current project, “The Twenty-First-Century Schizophrenia Memoir and Graphic Memoir” (2024–27), examines the forms, functions, and relations of schizophrenia life writing through rhetorical-narratological and materialist approaches. David has published multiple peer-reviewed essays and the monograph Techno-Thoreau: Aesthetics, Ecology and the Capitalocene (2019). He has presented internationally on schizophrenia graphic memoirs, co-organized symposia on mental health in graphic medicine and life writing (VU Amsterdam, 2025; KU Leuven, 2026), and is currently co-editing a special issue on the topic.