Dr Lois W. McFarland (MA, MScR, PhD, AFHEA)
Lecturer in Religion and Literature
Address
- Street
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School of Divinity, Mound Place
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH1 2LX
Background
Lecturer in Religion and Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Research areas include re-vision of biblical narratives in fiction, speculative fiction, AI, posthumanism, Afrofuturism, feminist and womanist re-vision and theory, queer theory, ecocriticism, affect theory.
Publications:
- Creation and Apocalypse in Feminist Speculative Fiction. Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming.
- “Suspicion Is More Likely To Keep You Alive Than Trust:” Affective Relationships with the Bible in Octavia Butler’s Parables.” Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2021, pp. 95–121, https://doi.org/10.17613/f3wp-m042.
Qualifications
PhD in Literature and Religion (2023)
MScR in English Literature (2018)
MA in English Language and Literature (2013)
Responsibilities & affiliations
Affiliate of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Director of the Scottish Network for Religion and Literature
Co-Director for the New College Festival of Books and Belief
Undergraduate teaching
Ethical Encounters with the 'Other' In Speculative Fiction
The Bible in Literature
Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding
Religion and Ethics in Literature
Postgraduate teaching
Ethical Encounters with the 'Other' In Speculative Fiction
Science, Religion and Literature
Issues of Religion and Ethics in Literature
AI and Theology
Religion and Literature: Exploring the Connections
Religion and Literature: Approaches to Research
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes