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My research focuses on representations of human rights violation and/or traumatic experience in narrative form, and the social, cultural, gendered and familial contexts in which such works are produced.

Recent applied projects, funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the UNDP, assessed the effectiveness of Expressive Writing methodologies in supporting the well-being of women victims of sexual violence in conflict in Iraq and AHRC funded work with communities in crisis across Lebanon.

My most recent publications including the monograph The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical: Negotiated Truths, Palgrave 2019, evaluate a range of life narrative forms that represent traumatic experience (memoir, testimony, poetry, graphic novels, monuments, autobiographical novels, etc) and consider the relationship between such works and current behavioural, psychological, and neurochemical approaches to diagnosing and treating traumatic disorders.

Finally, my practice-based research takes the form of creative non-fiction and autobiographical novels concerned with representations of traumatic experience.

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Employment (1)

Kingston University: Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, GB

2001-09-01 to present | Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing (Humanities )
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Meg Jensen

Education and qualifications (4)

Higher Education Academy: York, GB

2016-05-01 | Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
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University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College: London , London, GB

1992-09-01 to 1996-07-01 | PhD (English Literature )
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New York University: New York, NY, US

1989-09-01 to 1991-07-01 | Master's Degree with Distinction (English Literature )
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Sarah Lawrence College: Bronxville, NY, US

1981-09-01 to 1985-07-01 | BA Liberal Arts, concentration in science and writing, Senior Class President (Liberal Arts)
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Funding (8)

Expressive Life Writing and Telling During Crisis: Addressing Urgent Needs in the Akkar Governate, Lebanon

2021-01 to 2022-03 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (London , GB)
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Meg Jensen

Expressive Writing for Supporting Health Care Workersduring and after COVID 19.

2020-03 to 2020-12 | Contract
Viaro Investments, Ltd. (London , GB)
URL: https://expressivewritingresearch.com/
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Expressive Writing Capacity Building Expansion Project with Akkar Network for Development (AND), Beirut

2019-03 to 2019-12 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (London , GB)
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Expressive Writing Capacity Building Pilot with Akkar Network for Development (AND), Beirut

2018-03 to 2018-12 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (London , GB)
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Expressive Life Writing Project: Countering Violent Extremism in Iraq

2017-01 to 2017-06 | Grant
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (London , GB)
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Expressive Life Writing Project: Countering Stigma of Sexual Violence in Iraq Iraq

2016-11 to 2017-12 | Grant
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (London , GB)
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Expressive Writing to Support Women Victims of Sexual Violence in Conflict in Iraq

2016-01 to 2016-12 | Grant
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (London , GB)
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Centre for Life Narratives

2011-01 to 2011-11 | Award
University of Minnesota (MN, MN, US)
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Works (34)

Expressive writing and telling and participatory action research: developing a relational ethics of practice for story-based interventions in crisis settings

Journal of Poetry Therapy
2024-06-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/08893675.2024.2364348
Contributors: Siobhan Campbell; Meg Jensen
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Book Review of: 'Women writers of the Beat era : autobiography and intertextuality' by Mary Paniccia Carden

Life Writing
2020 | Journal article
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/42533/
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Meg Jensen

Speaking trauma and history : the collective voice of testimonial literature

The Palgrave handbook of Cold War literature
2020 | Book chapter
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/44293/
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Meg Jensen

Negotiated truths and iterative practice in action : the Women in Conflict expressive life writing project

Research Methodologies for Auto/Biography Studies
2019 | Book chapter
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/43999/
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The art and science of trauma and the autobiographical : negotiated truths

2019 | Book
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/43998/
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Forgetting

Forgetting, Kingston Writers' Centre
2018 | Other
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/40350/
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How art constitutes the human : aesthetics, empathy, and the interesting in autofiction

Autofictions in English
2018 | Book chapter
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/39793/
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Meg Jensen

Book Review of: 'Speaking pictures : neuropsychoanalysis and authorship in film and literature' by Alistair Fox

Viewfinder
2017 | Journal article
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/38216/
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Surviving the wreck : post-traumatic writers, bodies in transition and the point of autobiographical fiction

Life Writing
2016 | Journal article
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/34832/
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The expressive life writing handbook

2016 | Book
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/36293/
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The legible face of human rights in autobiographically based fiction

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights
2016 | Book chapter
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/30625/
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Meg Jensen

Education should be a right for all

The Guardian
2014 | Journal article
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/28326/
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Meg Jensen

Post-traumatic memory projects : autobiographical fiction and counter-monuments

Textual Practice
2014 | Journal article
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/25461/
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Meg Jensen

The fictional is political : forms of appeal in autobiographical fiction and poetry

We shall bear witness : life narratives and human rights
2014 | Book chapter
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/30624/
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Using life narrative to explore human rights themes in the classroom

We shall bear witness : life narratives and human rights
2014 | Book chapter
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/40554/
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We shall bear witness : life narratives and human rights

2014 | Book
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/30623/
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Something beautiful for Mary

New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
2012 | Journal article
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/25452/
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Meg Jensen

The writer's diary as borderland: the public and private selves of Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and Louisa May Alcott

Life Writing
2012 | Journal article
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/18880/
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Getting to know me in theory and practice: negotiated truth and mourning in autobiographically-based fiction (J.G. Ballard, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Jack Kerouac, Louisa May Alcott and me)

Literature Compass
2011 | Journal article
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/18881/
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Introduction: life writing and critical practice

Literature Compass
2011 | Journal article
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/18882/
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Writers' diaries and their fiction

Kingston Reader's Festival
2010 | Other
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/18895/
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Behind a mask: the unknown thrillers of Louisa May Alcott

Kingston Reader's Festival
2009 | Other
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/22860/
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Meg Jensen

Book Review of: The unbearable Saki: the work of H. H. Munro by Sandie Byrne

Modern Language Review
2009 | Journal article
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/12622/
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Meg Jensen

Introduction: do you speak life narrative?

Life writing: the spirit of the age and the state of the art
2009 | Book chapter
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/18381/
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Life writing: the spirit of the age and the state of the art

2009 | Book
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/18883/
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Separated by a common language: the (differing) discourses of life writing in theory and practice

a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
2009 | Journal article
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/18879/
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State of the art: the spirit of the age collection

Life writing: the spirit of the age and the state of the art
2009 | Book chapter
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/18382/
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Meg Jensen

Book Review of: Original copy: plagiarism and originality in nineteenth-century literature by Robert MacFarlane

Modern Language Review
2008 | Journal article
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/12697/
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Meg Jensen

Book Review of: Quixotic fictions of the USA 1792-1815 by Sarah F. Wood

Modern Language Review, The
2007 | Journal article
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/12818/
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The anxiety of daughterhood: re-examining Bloom's theory of influence in the work of Louisa May Alcott and Virginia Woolf

Literature Compass
2007 | Journal article
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/1503/
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Meg Jensen

Tradition and revelation: moments of being in Virginia Woolf's major novels

The Cambridge companion to the modernist novel
2007 | Book chapter
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/1028/
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Meg Jensen

Roper, Esther Gertrude (1868-1938)

Oxford dictionary of national biography
2004 | Book chapter
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/5841/
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Meg Jensen

Stephen, Caroline Emelia [Milly] (1834-1909)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004 | Book chapter
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/5843/
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Meg Jensen

The open book: creative misreadings in the works of selected modern authors

2002 | Book
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https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/1026/
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