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Josie Billington
Josie Billington specializes in Victorian literature and in research on reading and health. She has published extensively on the power of literary reading to influence mental health including research projects on reading in relation to chronic pain, self-harm, reading with children and families, and the psychodynamics of reading groups, with colleagues in medicine and psychology, and with the national charity, The Reader. Her publications in this field include Is Literature Healthy? (Oxford University Press, 2016), and an edited interdisciplinary volume, Reading and Mental Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Contact: Department of English, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L3 5TR, UK.