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Diletta De Cristofaro
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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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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...
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.
August 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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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...
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
May 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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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.
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
April 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Just a couple of Sicilian pastries for lunch in a lovely cloister 🍰🤣
A tray of 8 pastries, including cannoli e cassata The cloister where the pastries were bought. Blue tiles, flowers and plants
December 29, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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This beauty just arrived! shop.b-r-u-n-o.it/products/eva...

💫Wrote a short essay about dreams in contemporary culture for this book about artist Eva Frapiccini's Dreams Archive project (find out more: dreamsarchive.eu )
The cover of the book, dark blue with light blue words, on a blue shelf Pages from the book showing Frapiccini's work Dreams' Time Capsule
January 22, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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Set up for our Being Human Festival launch of the Reimagining Sleep exhibition later today🥳
If you can't make the launch, you can browse and contribute to the exhibition ➡️ www.writingsleep.com/reimagining-...

Funded by Wellcome, in partnership with The Sleep Charity, curator Chiara Dellerba.
A screen with the website page of the online exhibition The poster of the Reimagining Sleep exhibition, black background, white figures of hands, eyes and plants A long table set up for an art workshop, Being Human Festival bunting in the background
November 18, 2023 at 11:01 AM
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My new article on the intersections of the climate crisis and the sleep crisis in contemporary literature and culture is out now in Textual Practice!

🔓 Open access - read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0950...

#lit #envhum #medhum
A screenshot of the published article showing the title (‘How do you sleep at night knowing all this?’: climate breakdown, sleep, and extractive capitalism in contemporary literature and culture) and the abstract (available to read at https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2023.2265887)
October 4, 2023 at 9:46 AM
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Happy to take part in this year’s Being Human Festival! A free nationwide festival showcasing the #humanities research happening across the UK. Join us for a creative guided tour of the Reimagining Sleep exhibition where you'll have the chance to contribute to it. Info & 🎟️ bit.ly/3ZFCsUx
Black background with chalk marks. In the foreground two stylised sleepy faces. Text: Reimagining sleep Café, 18 November 2-4pm.
October 2, 2023 at 9:44 AM