Tiffany Watt Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith is the author of The Book of Human Emotions and Schadenfreude. She has been a recipient of multiple awards and prizes including from the Wellcome Trust, the British Academy and in 2019 was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for her work. She frequently gives public talks, including a TED talk, 'The History of Emotion Emotions' viewed more than 4.5 million times. She is Reader (Emerita) in Cultural History at Queen Mary University of London, where she ran the Centre for the History of Emotions. In 2024, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. You can find her on Substack The Future Feeling and on X @DrTiffWattSmith