Emily Troscianko

Emily Troscianko

I'm a writer and researcher based at the University of Oxford, and my five books so far are an eclectic bunch.

I'm co-author (with my stepfather, Adam Hart-Davis) of a historical biography about the man who built the first lighthouse on a rock in the open sea, and of a book that will tell you everything you never knew you wanted to know about urine.

The book based on my PhD explored the weirdnesses of what happens when you read Kafka, to try to understand better the strange phenomenon we call the 'Kafkaesque'.

I coedited, with a colleague Michael Burke, a collection of essays about the field of research called cognitive literary studies, trying to promote more truly two-way engagement between the literary people and the scientists.

And most recently, I co-authored (this time with my mother, Sue Blackmore) the world's only textbook on consciousness, which tackles the greatest scientific mystery of them all: why we have experiences at all (or feel like we do).

My research at the moment focuses on the question of whether reading (especially fiction-reading) can be therapeutic, or indeed harmful, in the context of mental illness, with a focus on eating disorders.

I write a blog on eating disorders for Psychology Today which brings together my own past experience of anorexia with the science of eating disorders, and my next book will be based on the blog, exploring what anorexia is and how to let it go.

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