research

PUBLICATIONS

Sleeping/Dormir, Guest edited issue of Intermediality/Intermédialités. Aleks Kaminska, Alanna Thain and Dayna McLeod, eds. Forthcoming Spring 2023.

Digital Nocturnes: Sonic Sleep Media, Theme week organized by Devon Bate. In media res, 10-16 October, 2022.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

SCMS 2023 – Panel: Night Shifts: Understanding Soporific Media
Alanna Thain, “Shift Work: Thresholdings at the Cinematic Sleep Lab”
Aleks Kaminska, “Mediated Narcosis and the Chronically Sleepy Spectator”
 
APL Banff 2022 – Panel: Representing Sleep
Alanna Thain and Aleks Kaminska, “Scales of Sleep: Chrononormativity and the Inhuman”
 
Colloque international THALIM 2022 : Les arts du sommeil

Alana Thain and Nik Forrest, “Sons et mondes, seuils et contacts”

Aleksandra Kaminska and Albertine Thunier, “Création automatique et restitution des rêves surréalistes : le sommeil de Desnos revu par TikTok et Dream AI”

 

SLSA 2021 – Panel: Enervated Sleep: Sleep at the Edge of the Social

Liza Solomonova, “Sleep’s Relationship to Technology: An Idiom of Distress and a Catalyst for Creativity”

Aleks Kaminska, “Pods, Bubbles, Capsules and the Public/Prive Threshold of Sleep Environments”

Dayna McLeod, “Sleeping for Audiences and the Terror that It Brings”

Alanna Thain, “Exhaustion, Reworked: The Feminist Sleep Thriller”

 

Fear 2000: Horror Unbound – Panel: Night Terrors, Sleep Horror

Dayna McLeod, Sleeping for Audiences and the Terror that it Brings

Alanna Thain, Dark Times: Feminist Sleep Thrillers and the Labour of Being a Body