About us

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The team behind Self-injury, history and me are two academics from the University of Reading, Dr. Alanna Skuse and Professor Tina O’Connell

Dr. Alanna Skuse is a lecturer in English literature, with a particular interest in medical and health writing from the past. Her latest project looks at how seventeenth-century plays, poems and medical books talk about the subject of self-injury, which is where the inspiration for Self-injury, history and me came from.

You can read articles about Dr. Skuse’s work here  and here

Professor Tina O’Connell is an artist and a lecturer in Art, with a special interest in sculpture and art-making technologies. She also runs the arts outreach programme of the University of Reading, ARTLAB