Media & Public Writing
I write opinion pieces and pieces of cultural criticism that draw on my scholarly research and are always accessible and engaging for a general audience. Below you can find a selection of my media and public writing.
Commission me to write
Areas of expertise include:
Dr Diletta De Cristofaro
“We had a garden and we paved it”: The Expanse and the Philosophy of the Anthropocene
Part of the book The Expanse and Philosophy: So Far Out into the Darkness, edited by Jeffery L. Nicholas. Wiley-Blackwell, 2021, pp. 135-144.
Online
The Counterproductive Promise of a “Sleep Goal”
The Week, March 2022
“Network Aesthetic”: Review of Douglas Coupland’s Binge
Review 31, February 2022
Literary Culture and Achievement Subjectivity from Gilmore Girls to A Year in the Life“
Post45 Contemporaries, November 2021
Generation X: its tales about McJobs and information overload feel as poignant now as in 1990s
Salon, March 2021 (originally published in The Conversation, March 2021)
We have worked out just what Tenet is all about
RTÉ Brainstorm, January 2021
Writing the Sleep Crisis
The Polyphony, December 2020
Entry on the iPhone in Ling Ma’s Severance
Crossed Lines online exhibition of literary telephones, November 2020
McJobs and Veal Fattening Pens: Work and Futurity in Generation X
ASAP/J, “Thirty Years of Generation X” cluster, November 2020
“Everyday is like Sunday”: Reading the Time of Lockdown via Douglas Coupland
boundary 2 online, May 2020
Archipelago, Jim Crace’s Last Novel that Never Was
Ransom Center Magazine, February 2018