Meg Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meg Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meg |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kingston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2297-2110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding Inequalities Shaping Engagement With Cultural and Green Assets to Improve Mental Health for Underserved Communities
The Legible Face of Human Rights in Autobiographically Based Fiction
This chapter examines a number of narrative forms, from the traditional restorative Bildungsroman , to nonfiction narratives of suffering in so-called "literatures of captivity" to the more hybrid and potentially problematic form of autobiographically based fictions. From the Bildungsroman to the misery memoir to the accounts of suffering offered by human rights campaign appeals, many forms of life writing may equally be said to make rights legib…
Surviving the Wreck
In autobiographical fiction, the repetition of specific ‘unprocessed’ tropes wherein contextual meaning remains unclear can be likened to the symptomatic ‘flashbacks’ endured by victims of trauma. Virginia Woolf's compulsive use of images of sea, mirrors, and unspoken shame, Jack Kerouac's brothers and angels, J. G. Ballard's empty swimming pools, Melville's tropes of Narcissus and madness and my own return to images of blood and wounding in my w…
Narrating Contested Lives
Journal Article Narrating Contested Lives: The Aesthetics of Life Writing in Human Rights Campaigns. Get access By Katja Kurz. (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. x, 271 pp. €48.00.) Meg Jensen Meg Jensen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 2, September 2016, Pages 442–443, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw189 Published: 01 September 2016
Post-traumatic memory projects
In our age the categories of memory, monumentality, and truth telling are all far from stable. In the highly charged world of what Foucault termed 'parrhesia' – a mode of free speech 'linked to courage in the face of danger' – testimony can challenge a state's version of events and autobiographical fictions offer contexts through which trauma might be understood. In this essay, I argue that this danger and instability has come to supersaturate co…
The Writer's Diary as Borderland
The Practice Ground for Fiction \nDr Meg Jensen, Kingston University \n“It strikes me that in this book I practise writing; do my scales; yes and work at certain effects. I daresay I practised Jacob here; and Mrs D and shall invent my next book here; for here I write merely in the spirit – great fun it is too, and Old V of 1940 will see something in it too. “ From Virginia Woolf, The Writer’s Diary, October 17 1924. What is the work of a writers’…
Getting to Know Me in Theory and Practice
Despite recent controversies over ‘faked’ memoirs, most readers of life writing continue to trust in the autobiographical pact: they believe that memoirs are a source of personal truth, a writer’s outlet for laying bare the past. But some argue that the codes and conventions of memoir inscribe a distance between self and subject. Before writers are able to tell the truth to their readers, moreover, they have to confront and process that truth the…
Introduction
Contemporary critical practice is becoming increasingly self‐reflective, with first person commentary and subjective musings appearing in academic texts produced across disciplines. On the other hand, as the number of writing practitioners in the academy mounts, their works reflect a growing awareness of, and engagement with, the critical and theoretical debates that surround creative practice. Nowhere is this interchange between theory and pract…
Separated by a Common Language
My paper draws on my experience as writer, academic, and director of the Centre for Life Narratives at Kingston University (CLN). Taking examples from CLN's successful reading and research seminars, I will argue that the act of bringing together academics and practioners to debate notions of truth-telling, ethical dilemma, representations of the self and the like is not only challenging and frustrating, it is an act of translation in which someth…
The Anxiety of Daughterhood, or Using Bloom to Read Women Writers
‘ The process of literary influence is a battle between strong equals, father and sons .’ So wrote Harold Bloom in The Anxiety of Influence . But what of literary daughters? Can Bloom's work offer insights into the dynamics of literary influence for daughters as well as sons? Louisa May Alcott and Virginia Woolf were writer‐daughters of writer‐fathers who anxiously negotiated familial patriarchy and patriarchal literary history in their texts. In…
Surviving the Wreck
In autobiographical fiction, the repetition of specific ‘unprocessed’ tropes wherein contextual meaning remains unclear can be likened to the symptomatic ‘flashbacks’ endured by victims of trauma. Virginia Woolf's compulsive use of images of sea, mirrors, and unspoken shame, Jack Kerouac's brothers and angels, J. G. Ballard's empty swimming pools, Melville's tropes of Narcissus and madness and my own return to images of blood and wounding in my w…
Post-traumatic memory projects
In our age the categories of memory, monumentality, and truth telling are all far from stable. In the highly charged world of what Foucault termed 'parrhesia' – a mode of free speech 'linked to courage in the face of danger' – testimony can challenge a state's version of events and autobiographical fictions offer contexts through which trauma might be understood. In this essay, I argue that this danger and instability has come to supersaturate co…
Narrating Contested Lives
Journal Article Narrating Contested Lives: The Aesthetics of Life Writing in Human Rights Campaigns. Get access By Katja Kurz. (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. x, 271 pp. €48.00.) Meg Jensen Meg Jensen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 2, September 2016, Pages 442–443, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw189 Published: 01 September 2016
The Writer's Diary as Borderland
The Practice Ground for Fiction \nDr Meg Jensen, Kingston University \n“It strikes me that in this book I practise writing; do my scales; yes and work at certain effects. I daresay I practised Jacob here; and Mrs D and shall invent my next book here; for here I write merely in the spirit – great fun it is too, and Old V of 1940 will see something in it too. “ From Virginia Woolf, The Writer’s Diary, October 17 1924. What is the work of a writers’…
Separated by a Common Language
My paper draws on my experience as writer, academic, and director of the Centre for Life Narratives at Kingston University (CLN). Taking examples from CLN's successful reading and research seminars, I will argue that the act of bringing together academics and practioners to debate notions of truth-telling, ethical dilemma, representations of the self and the like is not only challenging and frustrating, it is an act of translation in which someth…
The Anxiety of Daughterhood, or Using Bloom to Read Women Writers
‘ The process of literary influence is a battle between strong equals, father and sons .’ So wrote Harold Bloom in The Anxiety of Influence . But what of literary daughters? Can Bloom's work offer insights into the dynamics of literary influence for daughters as well as sons? Louisa May Alcott and Virginia Woolf were writer‐daughters of writer‐fathers who anxiously negotiated familial patriarchy and patriarchal literary history in their texts. In…
Separated by a Common Language
My paper draws on my experience as writer, academic, and director of the Centre for Life Narratives at Kingston University (CLN). Taking examples from CLN's successful reading and research seminars, I will argue that the act of bringing together academics and practioners to debate notions of truth-telling, ethical dilemma, representations of the self and the like is not only challenging and frustrating, it is an act of translation in which someth…
Getting to Know Me in Theory and Practice
Despite recent controversies over ‘faked’ memoirs, most readers of life writing continue to trust in the autobiographical pact: they believe that memoirs are a source of personal truth, a writer’s outlet for laying bare the past. But some argue that the codes and conventions of memoir inscribe a distance between self and subject. Before writers are able to tell the truth to their readers, moreover, they have to confront and process that truth the…
Introduction
Contemporary critical practice is becoming increasingly self‐reflective, with first person commentary and subjective musings appearing in academic texts produced across disciplines. On the other hand, as the number of writing practitioners in the academy mounts, their works reflect a growing awareness of, and engagement with, the critical and theoretical debates that surround creative practice. Nowhere is this interchange between theory and pract…
The Writer's Diary as Borderland
The Practice Ground for Fiction \nDr Meg Jensen, Kingston University \n“It strikes me that in this book I practise writing; do my scales; yes and work at certain effects. I daresay I practised Jacob here; and Mrs D and shall invent my next book here; for here I write merely in the spirit – great fun it is too, and Old V of 1940 will see something in it too. “ From Virginia Woolf, The Writer’s Diary, October 17 1924. What is the work of a writers’…
Post-traumatic memory projects
In our age the categories of memory, monumentality, and truth telling are all far from stable. In the highly charged world of what Foucault termed 'parrhesia' – a mode of free speech 'linked to courage in the face of danger' – testimony can challenge a state's version of events and autobiographical fictions offer contexts through which trauma might be understood. In this essay, I argue that this danger and instability has come to supersaturate co…
Surviving the Wreck
In autobiographical fiction, the repetition of specific ‘unprocessed’ tropes wherein contextual meaning remains unclear can be likened to the symptomatic ‘flashbacks’ endured by victims of trauma. Virginia Woolf's compulsive use of images of sea, mirrors, and unspoken shame, Jack Kerouac's brothers and angels, J. G. Ballard's empty swimming pools, Melville's tropes of Narcissus and madness and my own return to images of blood and wounding in my w…
Narrating Contested Lives
Journal Article Narrating Contested Lives: The Aesthetics of Life Writing in Human Rights Campaigns. Get access By Katja Kurz. (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. x, 271 pp. €48.00.) Meg Jensen Meg Jensen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 2, September 2016, Pages 442–443, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw189 Published: 01 September 2016
The Legible Face of Human Rights in Autobiographically Based Fiction
This chapter examines a number of narrative forms, from the traditional restorative Bildungsroman , to nonfiction narratives of suffering in so-called "literatures of captivity" to the more hybrid and potentially problematic form of autobiographically based fictions. From the Bildungsroman to the misery memoir to the accounts of suffering offered by human rights campaign appeals, many forms of life writing may equally be said to make rights legib…
Understanding Inequalities Shaping Engagement With Cultural and Green Assets to Improve Mental Health for Underserved Communities
Art (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)