Anna McFarlane
Education and Experience
Anna McFarlane was awarded an MA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh (2007) followed by an MLitt in Women, Writing and Gender from the University of St Andrews (2008). She has also attended the London Critical Theory Summer School at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (2011). In the past she has worked on issues of identity politics raised by ideas of bodily and mental collectivism in cyberpunk, a branch of science fiction. Now in the second year of her PhD programme, she is continuing to develop these themes and to look further at the field of technology, totalitarianism and personal and social identity.
Publications:
Conference Papers
‘The Politics of Psychology: Adam Roberts and the Collective Unconscious’, Contemporary Research in Speculative Fiction, University of Liverpool, June 2011.
‘The Gestalt of the Worker/Soldier: Pacifism and Technophobia in Post-War Science Fiction’, The Second World War: Popular Culture and Cultural Memory, University of Brighton, July 2011.
‘The Cyberpunk Gestalt: Perception and Autopoeisis in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition’, Twenty-First Century European Literature: Mapping New Trends, University of St Andrews, September 2010.
