NEW CHARM CHAIR 2026
Dr. Claire 
Jeantils is network lead of the International Narrative Neurology Network and an Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. She holds a PhD in French and Comparative Literature from Sorbonne Nouvelle University. Her research focuses on translational medical humanities and critical approaches to narrative practices in medicine, using epilepsy and chronic illness as case studies.
Her work has developed through international and multilingual contexts, including fellowships in France, Switzerland, and the UK, and training in Narrative Medicine and Creative Writing in the US (Columbia University, Bread Loaf School of English). As a 2024 fellow at the Institut des Humanités en Médecine (Lausanne), she helped launch the journal Soin, Sens et Santé, the first bilingual (French-English) medical humanities publication, and now serves on its editorial board.
Claire leads the International Narrative Neurology Network, an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral initiative bringing together more than 40 researchers and healthcare practitioners to explore the intersection of narrative and neurology at both theoretical and pragmatic levels. She is also co-creator and host of Raconter l’épilepsie, produced by the Institut la Personne en Médecine (Paris), the first French podcast making medical humanities approaches accessible to patients, carers, and clinicians.
Publications –
[In press] Jeantils, C. 2026. Rethinking choral narratives through the Lens of Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: A Cross-Perspectival Reading of Chambre simple by Jérôme Lambert and La Colère et l’Envie by Alice Renard. Steven Wilson, Larry Duffy (ed). French Studies and the Medical Humanities: Critical Intersections. Liverpool University Press.
Jeantils, C., Dalton, B., Huan, R., 2026. Hearing the Neuro-Voice in the International Narrative Neurology Network. The Polyphony.
Wasson, S. 2025. Avant le récit : lecture épisodique et représentations des douleurs chroniques, (translation C. Jeantils), Soins, Sens et Santé, an International Journal of the Health Humanities. 2.
Jeantils, C., Wasson, S., 2025. Translating Chronic Pain Temporalities. The Polyphony.
Jeantils, C. 2025. Pour une épileptologie narrative : fondements théoriques et perspectives pour la pratique médicale. Pratique Neurologique.16 (2).
Éditorial. 2024. Soin, Sens et Santé. 1.
Jeantils, C. 2023. L’écriture à l’épreuve de l’épilepsie : à propos d’une mutation des genres littéraires dans le panorama éditorial français. Francosphères, Special Issue: Cultures of disease in the French-speaking world, (dir.) Steven Wilson, Hannah Grayson.
Jeantils, C. 2023. Les humanités médicales françaises : input, debates and challenges. The Polyphony.