Jürgen Pieters is a Professor of Literary Theory in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University.
Pieters teaches introductory courses of literary theory and the history of poetics, as well as master courses on literature and care and creative criticism. In the latter course, the essay is the focus of attention.
He is the author of several academic monographs, in Dutch and English. His latest book is Literature and Consolation. Fictions of Comfort (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). He is currently working on a new book on bibliotherapy.
He is the director of a new international network of Health Humanities scholars, CHARM (Consortium for Health Humanities, Arts, Reading and Medicine).
