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Isabelle Meuret has been a Professor of English, English-speaking world cultures, and narrative journalism at the Faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication, Free University of Brussels (ULB) since 2005. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and maintains active research in literary journalism and medical humanities. Her scholarly focus spans: Literary Reporting : Analysis of narrative techniques in journalism Medicine and Literature : Intersections of healthcare narratives and literary expression Cross-cultural Analysis : English-speaking world cultures She has held visiting scholar positions at: UCLA Stanford University (1999-2000) Columbia University (2019-2020) University of Oxford, Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (2022-2023) Honors include her role as Research Chair of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies. She recently contributed to major academic references like The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism Studies (2020) and coordinated a special issue of Literature and Medicine journal.

• Literary Reporting
• Literature
• Medicine
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Jelle Mast is an Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), affiliated with the Linguistics and Literature Study Center for Literary and Intermedial Crossings. Holding a PhD in Communication Sciences, he maintains an active research profile with 60 research outputs and an h-index of 11 based on 337 citations. His research focuses on the intersection of visual communication, journalism practice, and professional ethics. Key areas include visual gatekeeping and user-generated imagery in news media, journalism and terrorism coverage, metajournalistic discourse, and genre hybridization in journalism and documentary. His fingerprint analysis reveals strong connections to television studies, news values, alternative media, and journalism ethics. Mast's publication record shows consistent scholarly output since 2003, with recent emphasis on computational news values analysis, media system comparisons through neoliberal frameworks, and the evolving nature of journalistic autonomy. His work spans articles, conference papers, book chapters, and datasets, with significant contributions in 2022-2025. External Position: (Vice) Chair of Visual Communication Studies Division at International Communication Association (2017-2021) Editorial Role: Co-Editor of Language & Communication journal (2024-2025) Conference Organization: Co-organized "What's (the) News?" conference (2018) and "Look Who's Talking" conference (2024-2025) His supervised work includes doctoral projects with Nils Wandels and dataset development with Guo, J. on Chinese News Values indicators. Current research projects extend through 2027, focusing on voices and sources in news media and international doctoral collaborations.

• Visual Communication
• Journalism Ethics
• News Media
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Vanessa Gemis is a researcher in literary history and the sociology of literature at the Free University of Brussels (ULB). She holds dual appointments: as a research logistics officer in the Faculty of Arts, Translation and Communication, and as a research associate at the Philixte center, which specializes in philological, literary, and textual studies. Her doctoral work analyzed women's roles in French-language Belgian literary culture between 1880 and 1940. Research Focus Gemis's scholarship examines: The sociology of literary production and reception Historical relationships between journalism and literature Gender dynamics in Belgian literary circles Romance philology frameworks Belgian female reporters during the interwar era (1918-1939) Laboratory Affiliation She conducts research through the Philixte center, an interdisciplinary hub dedicated to advancing philological methodologies and textual analysis within Belgian academia.

• Literary History
• Sociology of Literature
• Press and Literature Studies
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Paul ARON is a Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles specializing in Belgian and French literature. He holds a research position with the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) and is an active member of the Class of Letters and Moral and Political Sciences at the Royal Academy of Belgium. Professor ARON's research centers on literary journalism as an intersection between literature and journalism, exploring how literary techniques enhance journalistic narratives to capture social and cultural history. His work examines publications like XXI, Feuilleton, and Crimes et Châtiments that have gained prominence in 21st century France. He has presented on historical topics including "Women reporters between the two wars: careers, skills, writing" and "Charles Monselet, a polygraph not to be forgotten... and even less to be disdained". In his lecture course "Literary journalism and major reporting. A passion for reality, or truth-writing," Professor ARON analyzes the French tradition of major reporting, American journalism's influence on French-speaking media, and contemporary publications' role in understanding societies during hypermediatization. He characterizes literary journalism as an oxymoron that provides "a salutary response to the desire to understand a reality that traditional media tend to simplify, distort, or even ignore" in today's digital landscape.

• Belgian Literature
• French Literature
• Literary Journalism
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