Diletta De Cristofaro

Had fun chatting all things sleep with @earlymodernjohn, @sashahandley, @KenMillerWrites and @RaisingGinger on @BBCFreeThinking. Airing tonight at 10pm @BBCRadio3 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… & also available as podcast 💤🎧

Contributors include @alicecbennett, @alekskaminska, @NCEugene, @AnnaNolda, @smurrayleeds, @M_Wolf_Meyer. Full list ⬇️

Not long to go: *Sleep and Its Meanings: Sociocultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies* edited by @tedilta is out with @mitpress in May '26 (print and OA). Featuring essays by a range of brilliant critical sleep studies scholars! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052306/…

@META_PoliMi Thanks for the shout-out! The book features a great chapter on the history of the bed by Simona Chiodo and Imma Forino @META_PoliMi @dastu_polimi! Out soon 🛌

Sleep isn’t just biology: it’s a hot topic in the humanities too! "Sleep and Its Meanings" by @tedilta @NorthumbriaUni explores sleep in all its meanings 🌈 A read that won’t lull you into Morpheus’ arms.. but will keep you awake until the last page 📚 👉bit.ly/4rUxq37

For the Autumn issue of @NewHumanist, I had the pleasure of writing about health anxiety and two great new books about hypochondria by @c_crampton and Will Reiss. Out now!

Euan Lawson from @BJGPjournal covers the science sleuths fighting to save research from bias and fakery, while @tedilta writes about the the rise of health anxiety, and @andrew_mueller reviews two books about what war does to ordinary men…

All ready for the Reimagining Sleep pop-up at The Late Shows! Come see us at @NorthumbriaUni student central. thelateshows.org.uk/2025/northumbr…

We are pleased to invite submissions for the BACLS Monograph Prize! We look forward to celebrating exceptional scholarship once again this year. Prize Coordinators: Dr Dilek Ozturk Yagci Dr Yagmur Sonmez Demir Please find the full details attached. bacls.org/site/prizes/ca…

Delighted to take up the role of Editor of the Irish Studies Publications Round the World section in Estudios Irlandeses - taking over from the fab @IrishEcocritic I'll be looking for books to review, reviewers across #rishStudies History, Art, Literature, Theatre, Theory

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

And in Episode 9 of the Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast, @MatthewLeggatt and I are joined by Prof. Nathan Waddell (of @unibirmingham) to talk about "dystopian elegance" and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Give it a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/5Fggqi…

ICYMI: The Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast is back with a bang! @MatthewLeggatt + I launched S2 with an awesome chat with @tedilta about all things (post-)apocalypse. It's always great listening to Diletta speak + this episode is no exception: open.spotify.com/episode/0kFiL6…

📢Exciting opportunity: C21 is seeking a new editor for a three-year term, to start on 19th May 2025 C21, the journal of BACLS, is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication & circulation of 21C writings. More details on the role: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/

Had a fun chat a few weeks ago on (post-)apocalyptic fiction, and you can now listen to it on @MatthewLeggatt and @DystopiaJunkie's brilliant Utopian and Dystopian Fictions podcast open.spotify.com/episode/0kFiL6…

Deadline extended to 7th Feb! You know what to do...✍️✍️✍️ Submit your abstract here: forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L36P…

📢The CfP for our next WHN-BACLS conference (10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling) is now live! Find it here forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L36P… and send us your abstracts by Friday 24th January 2025.

Are you applying to the @ahrcpress #CreativeCommunities Community Innovation Practitioner Awards 2025-6? Read the call guidance & register for our EOI webinar 👀 Award details: creativecommunities.uk/research_artic… Webinar sign up: @e757cfdd-1f35-4457-af8f-7c9c6b1437e3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0b35b557…

📣We'll be hosting @smurrayleeds on 13 Nov, 4pm, @InsHumanitiesNU. Stuart will be talking about "Partner-Led Research, Ways of Working and Living Values in Medical Humanities Research”. All welcome - at Northumbria Uni (Lipman 121) or on Teams (📧r.obrien@northumbria.ac.uk)!

Save the Date! We are pleased to announce that BACLS 2025 will take place from 10-12 June 2025 in Stirling, Scotland. A Call for Papers will be released in the coming weeks on here and via our mailing list.