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