Invited Seminars

June 2025: ‘Stories in Law and Law in Stories: The Case of Assisted Dying’, Southampton Centre for Medical and Health Humanities, University of Southampton [with Dr Marc Keller]
Feb 2025: ‘Assisted Lab’s “Living Archive of Assisted Dying”’, Meeting of the Transnational Popular Culture Research Cluster, Culture and Creativity Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University
May 2024: ‘Losing Oneself: A Research Conversation on Literature, Neurodegeneration and Disenfranchised Grief’, School of Modern Languages Seminar Series, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University [with Prof. Shirley Jordan]
Dec 2024: ‘Jérémie Szpirglas, Disenfranchised Grief and the Taboo of Medical Termination’, Meeting of the Histories and Subjectivities Research Cluster, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow

Selected Conference Papers

May 2025: ‘The Role of Narratives in European Law-Making Processes Surrounding Assisted Dying’, Granada Conference on End-of-Life: Evidence-Based Ethics and Policy Making, University of Granada
Apr 2025: ‘“Au-delà de toute souffrance que je connais déjà”: Existential Suffering and the Desire to Die in Sophie Jomain’s Quand la nuit devient jour (2016)’, Endings and Meanings: Existential Sufferings in the 21st Century, Collegium Helveticum, Zurich
Sept 2024: ‘Francophone Advocacy for Assisted Dying: The Role of Stories’, French Studies and the Medical Humanities: Critical Intersectionalities, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, London
July 2024: ‘If “there is nothing holy about agony,” what is the place of religion in contemporary, francophone narratives of assisted dying?’, Society for French Studies 65^th Annual Conference, University of Stirling
June 2023: ‘Tri-directional Care in the Writing of Bereaved Parents’, Society for French Studies 64^th Annual Conference, Newcastle University
Mar 2022: ‘«Tu trouves pas quand même absolument fabuleux d’en connaître un peu moins?»’: Dementia and the “Second Childhood” as Shared Learning in Sophie Fontanel’s Grandir’, Women’s Narratives of Ageing and Care, Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research [online]
June 2021: ‘“Le deuil oblige à dire”: Philippe Forest’s Journey Through Grief 1997-2007’, Society for French Studies 62^nd Annual Conference [online]
Mar 2021: ‘The Immobility of Parental Grief: Against the Pervasive faire son deuil in the Writing of Bereaved Parents’, ASMCF-SSFH Annual Postgraduate Study Day 2021 [online]
Oct 2020: ‘Parenting the Deceased Child in Sophie Daull’s Camille, mon envolée’, Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities, Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research [online]
Nov 2019: ‘Supporting the Family through Terminal Illness in Philippe Forest’s L’Enfant éternel’, European Cultures of Palliative Care, University of Zurich
June 2019: ‘The Secular Frontier: French Literary Perspectives on the Palliative Care System’, CHCI Medical Humanities Summer Institute: Health Beyond Borders, Columbia Global Centres, Paris

Jordan McCullough