Philip Davis, Emeritus Professor of literature and psychology, was Director of the Centre for Research in Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS), University of Liverpool. His books include biographies of George Eliot and Bernard Malamud, and works on Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Wordsworth, and the Victorians. His most recent publications include Reading and the Reader (OUP, 2013), Reading for Life (OUP, 2020), and with Fiona Magee, Arts for Health: Reading (Emerald Press, 2020). He is an editor of two OUP series, The Literary Agenda and My Reading, and Studies in Bibliotherapy for Anthem. His interests include reading and mental health, and shared reading in the community outside academe.