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Author:   Marina Cano (Independent Researcher) ,  Rosa García-Periago (University of Murcia, Spain)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9781350528666

ISBN 10:   1350528668
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   14 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction, Marina Cano (Independent Researcher) and Rosa García-Periago (University of Murcia, Spain) Part I: Resistance to Failure, Resistance Through Failure 1. Whorademia: Deluxe Professionals for Hire, Marina Cano (Independent Researcher) 2. The Fantastic Failure of the Ideal Worker and the Promises of the Virtual Phoenix, Jessi L. Smith (University of Colorado, USA) and Michele G. Wheatly (Syracuse University, USA) 3. Embracing the Unfinished, the Unattained, the Unconventional: Reframing Failure to Support Wellbeing, Narelle Lemon (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) and Sharon McDonough (Federation University, Australia) Part II: Living in Failure 4. Lost in the Maze: Failing to Find My Way in Dark Academia, Theadora Jean (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 5. Complaint and Ambivalence as the Last Line of Defence for a Casual Academic, Djuna Hallsworth (University of Sydney, Australia) 6. Academic Women and the ‘Failures’ of Addiction, Alicia Andrzejewski (College of William & Mary, USA) Part III: Restoring Failure 7. The Materiality of Failure, Dawn Lyon (University of Kent, UK) 8. Piecing Together: Art-based Exploration of Entering Academia as a Neurodiverse Woman, Lee Ann Thill (Lesley University, USA) 9. Digital Spaces as Places of Feminist Dissent for Women of Colour, Dinithi Bowatte (Massey University New Zealand) and Helen Yeung (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) Part IV: After Failure 10. It was a Festival of Slaps: On Grief, Failure and Getting Lost: A Black Woman Navigates Academia, Opemiposi Adegbulu (University of Edinburgh, UK) 11. Holding the Space for Failure: Death Doula Feminism as a Guide Through the Claustropolitan University, Tara Brabazon (Charles Darwin University, Australia)

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As a contribution to critical university studies, this is just superb, drawing on multiple disciplinary and interdisciplinary forms of inquiry, providing new methods for critique, and drawing on multiple university locations as well both in terms of geographical locations and institutional positions. This would also be a fine companion to Critical Race Theory counternarratives, showing another path for doing institutional critique in relationship to what inhabiting and being impacted by institutions feels like. -- Cris Mayo, Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Education, University of Vermont, USA

Author Information

Marina Cano is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Valencia, Spain. She is the author of Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage (2026). Rosa García-Periago is Senior Lecturer at the University of Murcia, Spain. She is co-editor of Jane Austen and William Shakespeare: A Love Affair in Literature, Film and Performance (2019) and Women and Indian Shakespeares (2022) and has published extensively on Indian Shakespeares in Shakespeare, Adaptation, Cahiers Élisabéthains, Borrowers and Lenders, Atlantis and other journals.

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