Rate My Professor Meg Jensen

Jensen's research examines representations of human rights violations and traumatic experiences in narrative forms such as memoir, testimony, poetry, graphic novels, monuments, and autobiographical novels, alongside the social, cultural, gendered, and familial contexts of production. She bridges literary analysis with behavioral, psychological, and neurochemical approaches to trauma diagnosis and treatment. Her practice-based research includes creative non-fiction and autobiographical novels on trauma. Key publications encompass The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical: Negotiated Truths (Palgrave, 2019), The Open Book: Creative Misreadings in the Works of Selected Modern Authors (2002), The Expressive Life Writing Handbook (with Siobhan Campbell, 2016), editor of Prelude & Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield (2021), and the forthcoming Grief Work as Autotheory: Sisterhood, Suicide and Art (2026). She has published extensively in journals and chapters on post-traumatic memory, life writing, and expressive writing ethics.

Jensen's influence extends to applied projects with humanitarian impact: AHRC-funded Expressive Life Writing in Lebanon (2020, £25,000; 2018-19, £47,000), UK FCO Stigma Project (£2,400, 2016), UNDP SIRI in Iraq (£1,500, 2017), Viaro Energy for COVID-19 health workers (£10,000, 2020), and UK Cabinet Office CVE (£7,400, 2017). These initiatives support well-being for survivors in conflict and crisis. She teaches Creative Writing at BA (Hons), MA, MFA, and PhD levels, specializing in autobiographical forms, and English Literature from the late 18th century to the present.