Diletta De Cristofaro

Inside the world of health anxiety It's Covid season again. Two books have lessons on how to navigate health anxiety

As flu and Covid season strikes again, two books have lessons on how to navigate health anxiety

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📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!

We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.

Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

📆Closing date: 5 January 2026

#UofGLibraryFellows

Inside the world of health anxiety It's Covid season again. Two books have lessons on how to navigate health anxiety

As flu and Covid season strikes again, two books by @cacrampton.bsky.social and Will Rees offer lessons on how to navigate health anxiety

My talk in #Mantova is tomorrow at 18:30 @ #FESTIVALETTERATURA [in Italian]

📢Ho ancora due biglietti omaggio per il mio intervento, se qualcuno e' interessato (scrivete pure qui).

This Bloomsbury writing fellowship sounds great. It is 'open to UK-based, up-and-coming authors and researchers who identify as Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse (BAED)' with a 1 October deadline.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.

A picture showing my article for New Humanist (title "A body of doubt") and two books, Will Rees' Hypochondria and Caroline Crampton's A Body Made of Glass.

For the Autumn issue of @newhumanist.bsky.social, I had the pleasure of writing about health anxiety and two great new books about hypochondria by @cacrampton.bsky.social and Will Reiss. Out now! newhumanist.org.uk/articles/644...

Look up! New Humanist's Autumn 2025 issue on the battle for space is out now How the battle over space affects all of us

This is out! A much-needed shot in the arm and antidote to space pessimism. With contributions on the African Space Agency, indigenous “Sky grief” and my interview with Mark Hilborne on the need for regulation in our age of space warfare

@euanlawson.social covers the science sleuths fighting to save research from bias and fakery, while @tedilta.bsky.social writes about the the rise of health anxiety, and @andrewmueller.bsky.social reviews two books about what war does to ordinary men…

Also just a bunch of other amazing pieces, including @jamesrball.com on Luigi Mangione and the “rationalist” murders, and @tedilta.bsky.social on health anxiety, and why we should all be less obsessed with monitoring our bodies

Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.

Sign the Petition Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Screenshot of proofs entitled: "Making Plastics Count: Citizen Science Beach Cleanups and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis (1980s-2020s)"

Proofs!!
My first publication on #Plastics, "Making Plastics Count: Citizen Science Beach Cleanups and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis (1980s-2020s)", is coming out in September in Environmental History 🐬🌏

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

new book series: Literature and Politics!

first title from Amanda Anderson and Simon During coming soon; pipeline bustling; consider it for your next project

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Join Nathan Waddell at Waterstones Hampstead on Thursday 26th June to celebrate the enduring legacy of George Orwell and the publication of Nathan's upcoming book A Bright Cold Day!

Get your tickets here ➡️ bit.ly/4jdo5Py

Deadline extended to 13 June! Send us your brilliant work please! 📝📚

Deadline extended to 13 June!

We are particularly looking for nominations for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair, and Publicity Officer.

If you have questions about Chair / Vice-Chair, get in touch with @tedilta.bsky.social; for publicity officer @juliaditter.bsky.social can answer your questions.

Table with The Late Shows and Reimagining Sleep leaflets and badgrd

Make your own sleep card table

Soundscapes and mark making table

Herbal sensory journey table

All ready for the Reimagining Sleep pop-up at The Late Shows! Come see us at @northumbriauni.bsky.social student central. thelateshows.org.uk/2025/northum...

We'll be at the Late Shows this Saturday with the Reimagining Sleep pop-up exhibition - come join us! thelateshows.org.uk/2025/northum...

'The Late Shows' written in neon yellow to mimic lights.

We are proud to be back for another year of supporting The Late Shows, Newcastle and Gateshead's free late-night culture crawl. Join our sessions this year on the Friday 16th and Saturday 17th of May for an evening of creativity and discovery 💡

🏆📚 The BACLS Monograph Prize, Edited Collection Prize and Postgraduate Essay Prize are now open for submission!

Entries are invited for work published in 2024 in the English language on any area of ‘contemporary literary studies’.

Deadline: 23 May

More details: bacls.org/site/prizes/...

Come and join us at the BACLS-WHN biennial conference next month!

Come join our Executive Committee by nominating yourself by 23rd May 2025!

We are looking to fill the following positions:

Chair
Vice Chair
Treasurer
Membership Secretary
Web Administrator
Publicity Officer
3 Graduate Student Reps
1 Ordinary Member

Details:
bacls.org/site/site/me...

Hope you enjoy it, let me know what you think!

Arrived today as recommended by @tedilta.bsky.social on the podcast. Love the cover!

A picture of a laptop showing the title page of the collection *Sleep and Its Meanings: Socio-Cultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies*, edited by Diletta De Cristofaro

A screenshot of the table of contents. It reads: Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. The Problem of Sleep: An Introduction to Critical Sleep Studies Diletta De Cristofaro Part I: Sleep in Arts and Culture 2. Watching and Waking: Between Critical Attention Studies and Critical Sleep Studies Alice Bennett 3. Toward a Politics of Drift: Curating Sleep for Critical Times Alanna Thain and Aleksandra Kaminska 4. A Genealogy of Sleep: A (Crip) Critique of Cultural Conceptions of Sleep Nicole Eugene 5. Sleeping Beauty and Sleep Science: Physiology and Myth-Making in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Somnocultures Martin Willis Part II: Sociologies of Sleep 6. The Sociology of Sleep: A Bourdieusian Approach Simon J. Williams 7. “This is how we sleep”: Young Children’s Views on How “Biologically Normal” Sleep Is Managed in Their Homes Lexie Scherer Part III: Anthropologies of Sleep 8. Troubled Sleep in Tsunami Evacuation Shelters in Yamada, Japan, 2011 Brigitte Steger 9. Sleeping in the Peruvian Andes and the Suburbs of Marseille: An Anthropological Reflection on Sleep as a Historical and Social Experience Arianna Cecconi Part IV: Sleep’s Histories and the City 10. Captive Sleep: Urban Space and the Politics of Rest in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro Amy Chazkel

A screenshot of the final part of the table of contents page. It reads 11. Revelations through Rest: Sleep and the Psyche of Mumbai Namita Vijay Dharia Part V: Technologies of Sleep 12. Beds as Symbols of Human Identity: A Varied History of Power Simona Chiodo and Imma Forino 13. Sleep Consistency: Affordances of Sleep-Tracking Technologies Nico Wettmann and Nicole Zillien 14. The Subjectivities of Wearable Sleep-Trackers: A Critical Posthumanist Discourse Analysis Anna Nolda Nagele 15. Touching Sleep: Immersed Process, Dispersed Object, Situated Vulnerability Stuart Murray, Christophe De Bezenac, Dave Lynch Afterword Sleep’s Three Faces: Vulnerability, Infrastructure, Variability Matthew Wolf-Meyer

At a whopping 116k words, the finalised manuscript of *Sleep and Its Meanings: Socio-Cultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies* is off to @mitpress.bsky.social! Thanks to the wonderful sleep scholars who have contributed such exciting essays - full list in the ToC in pictures.