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Marion Thain serves as the Director of the Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh. Before this, she was a Professor at King's College London, where she led the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and founded the Digital Futures Institute. During her tenure, she developed the Centre for Attention Studies. Marion began her academic career as a Junior Research Fellow at Cambridge University and has held positions in English departments at several Russell Group universities. Her international experience includes a role as a Professor of Arts Literature at New York University, focusing on interdisciplinary global liberal arts, and she was the Director of Digital Humanities there, returning to the UK in 2018. Her research interests lie particularly in the relationship between culture and technology, exploring the concept of 'technology' in its broadest sense, and examining the formations of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity.
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