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Dr Marina Cano
@drmarinacano.bsky.social
Asst Prof English │ Long 19th C │ Writer │ Researcher
Co-editor Women, "Failure" and Academia, https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-failure-and-academia-9781350528666/
https://metode.academia.edu/MarinaCano
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Tomorrow Thursday I'll be speaking about women, failure and academia at @leuphana.bsky.social. Come and join us on Zoom! #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure
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December 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Here is a list of upcoming Jane Austen and the Brontës virtual events scheduled for the next few months. There is a lot here from book clubs to movie nights & everything in between! Check the event websites for more information and details. 👉🏻 excessivelydiverting.substack.com/p/austen-bro...
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Very honoured to be the plenary speaker at this fabulous event on women, failure and academia at @leuphana.bsky.social. Two days till registration closes! #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/us...
November 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
October 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The next #English Lunchtime Research Seminar takes place on 5th November, 12pm, LCB012. Professor Michael Griffin will talk to us about Editing Goldsmith for @universitypress.cambridge.org. All welcome! #spéirgorm @ulresearch.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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For all followers: I am an ECR in English and the broader Humanities, and I am out of work. I have applied for numerous teaching jobs both at unis and colleges, admin jobs, museum collection assistant jobs, research jobs, NGO communication jobs.
I have a forthcoming book and research chapters.
October 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Our book is now open for pre-order! Comes out March 2026 @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure
With the very wonderful ‪@rellypops.bsky.social‬ @tsjharling.bsky.social‬ ‪@dawnlyon.bsky.social‬ @profjoubin.bsky.social‬ & many more!‬‬
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai...
Women, "Failure" and Academia
Women, “Failure” and Academia examines failures in modern academia, and especially the intersections between gender and academic failure. It argues that academi…
www.bloomsbury.com
July 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The Women’s History Network Conference is happening in Sep - it is online, FREE, and packed with fascinating sounding papers by archivists, curators, local historians, museum professionals, scholars, etc all about women’s history & archival, library, museum & personal collections.
📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025.

🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.

🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
July 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Always feels more real when there is a cover image. Thanks @bendoyle.bsky.social and everyone @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social for their work on this. Due out in December.
June 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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If you enjoy plotting tools, do not miss this approach from novelist Bryan Wiggins.
A Novel Blueprint for Building Your Book | Jane Friedman
One author finds that using digital tools to create a visual story grid is the trick he needs to crystallize his ideas and never miss a beat.
janefriedman.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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A date for your diaries! 8 July 2025, 18:30 — 20:30, for the launch of Ruth Beecher’s new book, Community Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s. Free but must register: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @ruthbeecher.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
Book launch. Ruth Beecher, Community Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s
Join us to celebrate Ruth Beecher's new book, Community Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s.
www.bbk.ac.uk
May 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Finally, our book Redrawing Europe´s Literary Map: Transnational Circulations of Women´s Writing 1850-1920 (formerly known as "Travelling Texts") is reaching the final stretch: the implementation of peer review recommendations are accepted, and the first 3 chapters have gone out for copy editing.
May 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Delighted to report that the paperback edition of Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion is now available for pre-order! You can also read it for FREE thanks to Open Access! Both options available here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-irish-g...
Irish Gothic
Irish Gothic
edinburghuniversitypress.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Ebook of my Jane Austen and Performance now at the absolute bargain price €12.99. Palgrave special sale. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#JaneAusten #JaneAusten250
Jane Austen and Performance
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March 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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In person or online, come next Tues. at 4pm eastern to what is sure to be a brilliant talk by Matt Fee: www.lemoyne.edu/event/the-ir...
The Irish on American Screens and Streams - Le Moyne College
Stories and images of and by the Irish abound in 21st century screen media, especially within the United States. The self-conscious uses of genre by these productions, not to mention […]
www.lemoyne.edu
March 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The recording of today's webinar with Prof. Trish Reid on theatre and performance in contemporary Scotland, hosted by @irishtheatreres.bsky.social is now available to watch on ISTR YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlLh...
March 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Looking forward to Houston, Friday February 21! My talk on AI will also be broadcast via Zoom: uh-edu-cougarnet.zoom.us/j/89581161077

Meeting ID: 89581161077
February 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Jane's world: fans and admirers pick their favourite Austen characters
Jane’s world: fans and admirers pick their favourite Austen characters
Helen Fielding, David Baddiel, Nicola Sturgeon and other cultural figures celebrate the great writer’s 250th birthday
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Coming up this month there's the fantastic joint conference between @adaptstudies.bsky.social and LFA on 'Adaptation and Aging'. More info can be found here, including the registration link: litfilm.org/conference/l...
The Literature Film Association » LFA/AAS 2025: Adaptation and Aging
litfilm.org
February 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Delighted and excited to announce the new @bloomsburylit.bsky.social long 19th C series, 'The New Nineteenth Century', edited by Porscha Fermanis and Omar Miranda. @amymartin13.bsky.social and soliciting proposals now, so read the blurb and please DM/email with ideas! Reposts gratefully received!
January 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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This free session coming up on Friday wins the all-time best registration award. More than 1,100 students and counting!
You can join me and @bookpostusa.bsky.social live, or wait for the recording.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How Does Literary Talent Get Discovered Today?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Writers increasingly face both publishers and agents who are closed to submissions, along with very long response times. If you're an emerging writer—especially an emerging literary writer—what do you...
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January 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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This semester's research seminar programme of the Crosscultural circa 19th-Century Research Centre at the University of St Andrews.
January 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM