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Diletta De Cristofaro

@tedilta.bsky.social

Asst prof @northumbriauni.bsky.social contemporary lit & culture | Essays New Humanist, The Week, Review31...| 📖 Sleep and Its Meanings @mitpress.bsky.social; The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel @bloomsburylit.bsky.social | dilettadecristofaro.com

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Publication day for *Sleep and Its Meanings: Sociocultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies* @mitpress.bsky.social! Proud to have worked with such great sleep scholars. Out OA soon too! Find out more about the collection: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205230...

The book on a bookshelf full of books about sleep. The cover is white and orange with images of alarm clocks

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Table of contents and full list of contributors:

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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.

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

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

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

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

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

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

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

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

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

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)

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Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

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.

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