Diletta De Cristofaro
@tedilta.bsky.social
Asst prof @northumbriauni.bsky.social contemporary culture | Essays New Humanist, The Week, Review31...| 📖 The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel @bloomsburylit.bsky.social; Sleep and Its Meanings @mitpress.bsky.social Spring '26 | dilettadecristofaro.com
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As flu and Covid season strikes again, two books have lessons on how to navigate health anxiety
Inside the world of health anxiety
It's Covid season again. Two books have lessons on how to navigate health anxiety
newhumanist.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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
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
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📣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
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
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As flu and Covid season strikes again, two books by @cacrampton.bsky.social and Will Rees offer lessons on how to navigate health anxiety
Inside the world of health anxiety
It's Covid season again. Two books have lessons on how to navigate health anxiety
newhumanist.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
As flu and Covid season strikes again, two books by @cacrampton.bsky.social and Will Rees offer lessons on how to navigate health anxiety
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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).
📢Ho ancora due biglietti omaggio per il mio intervento, se qualcuno e' interessato (scrivete pure qui).
Next week (on September the 3rd), I will be talking about my 2024 book at the
@festivaletteratura.it
>> www.festivaletteratura.it/it/home
My talk will be in in Italian, and tickets are still available!
>> www.clappit.com/biglietteria... <<
If you're in Mantova next week, come and say hi :)
@festivaletteratura.it
>> www.festivaletteratura.it/it/home
My talk will be in in Italian, and tickets are still available!
>> www.clappit.com/biglietteria... <<
If you're in Mantova next week, come and say hi :)
September 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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).
📢Ho ancora due biglietti omaggio per il mio intervento, se qualcuno e' interessato (scrivete pure qui).
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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/...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.
www.bloomsbury.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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/...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
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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.
August 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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.
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...
August 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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...
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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
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
newhumanist.org.uk
August 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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
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@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…
August 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
@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…
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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
August 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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
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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.
August 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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.
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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-...
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
www.change.org
July 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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-...
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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...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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...
docs.google.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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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 🐬🌏
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 🐬🌏
July 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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 🐬🌏
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 🐬🌏
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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.
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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.
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new book series: Literature and Politics!
first title from Amanda Anderson and Simon During coming soon; pipeline bustling; consider it for your next project
global.oup.com/academic/con...
first title from Amanda Anderson and Simon During coming soon; pipeline bustling; consider it for your next project
global.oup.com/academic/con...
global.oup.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
new book series: Literature and Politics!
first title from Amanda Anderson and Simon During coming soon; pipeline bustling; consider it for your next project
global.oup.com/academic/con...
first title from Amanda Anderson and Simon During coming soon; pipeline bustling; consider it for your next project
global.oup.com/academic/con...
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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
Get your tickets here ➡️ bit.ly/4jdo5Py
May 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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
Get your tickets here ➡️ bit.ly/4jdo5Py
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Deadline extended to 13 June! Send us your brilliant work please! 📝📚
🏆📚 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/...
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/...
Calls for Submissions
bacls.org
May 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Deadline extended to 13 June! Send us your brilliant work please! 📝📚
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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.
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.
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...
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...
Executive Committee Nominations 2025
bacls.org
May 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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.
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.
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...
May 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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...
May 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We'll be at the Late Shows this Saturday with the Reimagining Sleep pop-up exhibition - come join us! thelateshows.org.uk/2025/northum...
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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 💡
May 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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 💡
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🏆📚 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/...
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/...
Calls for Submissions
bacls.org
May 5, 2025 at 6:54 AM
🏆📚 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/...
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/...
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Come and join us at the BACLS-WHN biennial conference next month!
BACLS WHN 2025: Conference Registration now open!
The registration for the BACLS “What Happens Now?” Conference taking place 10th June – 12th June 2025 at Stirling University is now open. Please register via this link:
shop.stir.ac.uk/conferences-...
The registration for the BACLS “What Happens Now?” Conference taking place 10th June – 12th June 2025 at Stirling University is now open. Please register via this link:
shop.stir.ac.uk/conferences-...
British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies – What Happens Now? (BACLS-WHN 2025) | University of Stirling Online Shop
Seventh Biennial Conference of the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies.
shop.stir.ac.uk
May 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Come and join us at the BACLS-WHN biennial conference next month!
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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...
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...
Executive Committee Nominations 2025
bacls.org
May 5, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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...
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...