Tiffany Watt Smith is an internationally acclaimed author and historian of emotions.
Her new book Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships will be published in Spring 2025, by Faber & Faber in the UK and Celadon (Macmillan) in the US.
Her previous books, Schadenfreude and The Book Of Human Emotions have been translated into a dozen languages and have appeared on best-seller lists.
She has won multiple awards for her research and writing, including the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, and grants from Wellcome Trust, the British Academy, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Tiffany is a very experienced public speaker, regularly invited to give keynote lectures and public talks. She is a skilled broadcaster, frequently invited as an expert contributor on BBC Radio, and a committed teacher.
As a freelance educator and consultant, she has worked with museums, universities, large corporations and individuals.
She is Reader (emerita) at the School of Arts, Queen Mary University of London, where she taught for fifteen years and directed its Centre for the History of Emotions. In 2024, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Tiffany was educated at universities of Cambridge (BA and MPhil) and London (PhD). Before she became a writer and public intellectual, she worked as a theatre director, including part of the collective running the Arcola Theatre in Dalston and as International Associate at the Royal Court, winning the Jerwood Award for Directors. She lives in London, is married to the Northern Irish novelist and actor Michael Hughes, and they have two children.
Tiffany Watt Smith is an internationally acclaimed author and historian of emotions.
Her new book Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships will be published in Spring 2025, by Faber & Faber in the UK and Celadon (Macmillan) in the US.
Her previous books, Schadenfreude and The Book Of Human Emotions have been translated into a dozen languages and have appeared on best-seller lists.
She has won multiple awards for her research and writing, including the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, and grants from Wellcome Trust, the British Academy, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Tiffany is a very experienced public speaker, regularly invited to give keynote lectures and public talks. She is a skilled broadcaster, frequently invited as an expert contributor on BBC Radio, and a committed teacher.
As a freelance educator and consultant, she has worked with museums, universities, large corporations and individuals.
She is Reader (emerita) at the School of Arts, Queen Mary University of London, where she taught for fifteen years and directed its Centre for the History of Emotions. In 2024, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Tiffany was educated at universities of Cambridge (BA and MPhil) and London (PhD). Before she became a writer and public intellectual, she worked as a theatre director, including part of the collective running the Arcola Theatre in Dalston and as International Associate at the Royal Court, winning the Jerwood Award for Directors. She lives in London, is married to the Northern Irish novelist and actor Michael Hughes, and they have two children.