Dr. John Troyer is the Death Studies Scholar-at-Large and fomer Director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. His interdisciplinary research focuses on contemporary memorialization practices, postmortem bioethics, and the dead body’s relationship with technology. Dr. Troyer is also a theatre director and installation artist with extensive experience in site-specific performance across the United States and Europe. He is a co-founder of the Death Reference Desk website, the Future Cemetery Project and a frequent commentator for the BBC. His most recent book Technologies of the Human Corpse was published by MIT Press in 2022. He grew up in the American Funeral Industry.

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