Publication day for *Sleep and Its Meanings: Sociocultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies* @mitpress! Proud to have worked with such great sleep scholars. Out OA soon too! Find out more about the collection: https://t.co/GM0P3Acgmw
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! https://t.co/xehEhNs3fD
@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 📚
👉https://t.co/z7MVvDoXre
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!
🚨 Our Autumn 2025 issue is out today! It's all about the battle over space and how it affects us all.
Let's take a look inside... 🧵
https://t.co/G9vJMhUe70
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…
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.
https://t.co/F2VszhGYtY
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! https://t.co/dOVvGgzQhE
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: https://t.co/Zu5T7rvc2L
📢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: https://t.co/uPXF1Hq3Ii
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 https://t.co/ylKemcgzmW
📢The CfP for our next WHN-BACLS conference (10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling) is now live!
Find it here https://t.co/k8l1ekZVcc 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: https://t.co/WTfYjtIJ75
Webinar sign up: https://t.co/AMa8uBKTAo
📣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])!