Young Adult Sports Fiction and Eating Disorders
Emily Troscianko in conversation with Rocío Riestra-Camacho
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Emily Troscianko's Textual Therapies podcast has a new episode, an interview with Rocío Riestra-Camacho about the experiment she conducted as part of her PhD during a research visit to TORCH (timed well to end just before Covid!).
In the experiment, 65 young women read two novels in the "young adult sports fiction" genre, half of them with and half without a reading guide designed to help readers draw the positive from the books when it comes to food, body, and exercise. The reading guide significantly reduced participants' acceptance of gender stereotypes about the body, and Rocío found some promising trends on other measures too.
Detailed show notes and extended informaton on how Rocío designed and ran the experiment, what she'd like to do next, and her wider vision for expanding the scope of what humanities research encompasses can be found on Emily Troscianko's webpage 'Writing and research about bodies, minds, and text – in sickness and in health' or you can listen below to the interview itself.
Find our more about the 'Eating disorders and real-life reading' Knowledge Exchange Fellowship here.
