Jordan McCullough

Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century French Literature

Medical Humanities - Literature and Medicine

Assisted Dying in Literature and Film

Grief Writing

Research

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Assisted Lab, School of Medicine / School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St Gallen (March 2023-Present)
• Virtual Visiting Research Fellow, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University (September 2023-June 2024)
• Affiliated Researcher, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow (February 2023-February 2024)

Teaching

• Associate Lecturer, Contextual Studies, University of St Gallen (September 2024-December 2024)
• Teaching Assistant, School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen's University Belfast (September 2020-June 2024)
• Part-time Lecturer in Modern Languages, School of Academic and Continuing Education, Belfast Metropolitan College (September 2022-August 2023)

Other

• Associate Editor, The Polyphony, Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University (January 2023-Present)

• Executive member of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France
• Member of L'Association des études françaises et francophones d'Irlande
• Member of the Association for Medical and Health Humanities
• Member of the Society for French Studies

Invited Seminars

• 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
• 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

• Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA)