Asst prof @NorthumbriaUni contemporary lit & culture | Words @TheWeek @Salon @Review31 etc | Books: on apocalypse @BloomsburyLit; on sleep @mitpress
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
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Contributors include @alicecbennett, @alekskaminska, @NCEugene, @AnnaNolda, @smurrayleeds, @M_Wolf_Meyer. Full list ⬇️
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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/97802620523…
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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
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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…
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All ready for the Reimagining Sleep pop-up at The Late Shows! Come see us at @NorthumbriaUni student central. thelateshows.org.uk/2025/nor…
ALT A table with The Late Shows and Reimagining Sleep leaflets and badges
ALT Make your own sleep card exhibition table
ALT Soundscape and mark-making table
ALT Herbal sensory journey table
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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/calls-…
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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
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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/5Fg…
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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/0kF…
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📢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…
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Deadline extended to 7th Feb! You know what to do...✍️✍️✍️
Submit your abstract here: forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L36PPd7
📢The CfP for our next WHN-BACLS conference (10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling) is now live!
Find it here forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L36PPd7 and send us your abstracts by Friday 24th January 2025.
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📢The CfP for our next WHN-BACLS conference (10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling) is now live!
Find it here forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L36PPd7 and send us your abstracts by Friday 24th January 2025.
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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/resea…
Webinar sign up: events.teams.microsoft.com/e…
AHRC's Creative Communities, hosted by @NorthumbriaUni is extending to 2027, with an additional £1.7m funding committed.
This collaborative initiative re-imagines research in response to community needs.
More from Programme Director @ProfKatyShaw:
orlo.uk/xlmga
ALT Quote from the blog: "Research doesn’t just happen in a lab: it happens on doorsteps and local neighbourhood streets, civic spaces and town centres, schools and hospitals, cities, coasts and countryside, through diverse digital and physical creative communities." ~ Katy Shaw, Programme Director, Arts and Humanities Research Council Creative Communities AHRC logo
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📣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 (📧[email protected])!
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Call for short essays on 'Literature and Science in the Public Sphere' in Public Humanities, a new international open-access, cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of humanities scholarship and public life.
Deadline: 31 March 2025
bsls.ac.uk/2024/10/cfp-liter…
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Delighted to announce that my first book, Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020, is out now with @BloomsburyAcad!
bloomsbury.com/uk/minimalism…
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I'm looking forward to talking on ways of working and research values in #MedicalHumanities in this series in November. I've really enjoyed sharing and discussing research with @NorthumbriaUni staff across disciplines when I've been there in the past
The semester 1 programme for the Institute of Humanities seminar series at @NorthumbriaUni is now live! Please share widely: everyone is welcome to attend, and contact [email protected] for weekly Teams links. @NorthEnglishes @NorthumbriaHist @NUAmStudies @NorthumbriaMus
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Join Prof Jason Ellis @NorthumbriaPsy and @tedilta for a Morning Conversation on "sleep today" @litandphil on Saturday 28th Sept, 11am-12:30pm. All welcome! Sign up here: litandphil.org.uk/event/satu…
Diletta De Cristofaro retweeted
The semester 1 programme for the Institute of Humanities seminar series at @NorthumbriaUni is now live! Please share widely: everyone is welcome to attend, and contact [email protected] for weekly Teams links. @NorthEnglishes @NorthumbriaHist @NUAmStudies @NorthumbriaMus