Lucy McMillan
Thesis title: The Contemporary Femme Fatale Beyond Noir: Gender, Genre, and Intermediality
Intermediality
Year of study: 4
- PhD in Intermediality
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: s1841190@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Background
Lucy McMillan is a current fourth-year PhD student in intermediality in the LLC.
Qualifications
2014 - 2018 - BA (Hons) English and Film - Edinburgh Napier University
2018 - 2019 - PGDE Secondary English - The University of Aberdeen
2021 - 2022 - MSc Comparative Literature - The University of Edinburgh
Responsibilities & affiliations
Professional Memberships
The Association for Adaptation Studies
British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies
International Women's Writing Association
Research summary
Adaptation, intermediality, comparative literature, genre, queer theory, and gender studies.
Organiser
- Co-organiser of The Monster Media Conference (June 2026 @ The University of Edinburgh)
Papers delivered
- 'Gendered Trauma and Domestic Noir in Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects' at The International Women's Writing Association (IWWA) and L&GEND conference 'Pleasure and Pain in Women's Writing' 9th-12th September 2026 @ G. D'Annunzio University, Pescara, Italy