Dr Lois McFarland is a Lecturer in Religion and Literature at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. She currently teaches at New College and the Edinburgh Futures Institute on subjects such as religious and ethical issues in fiction, religious identity through storytelling, the Bible in literature, and violence and peacebuilding in contemporary media. She is part of the committee for the Scottish Network for Religion and Literature, the New College Festival of Books and Belief, and New College Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Research Interests:
Lois McFarland’s research focuses on the intertextual use of biblical myth in speculative fiction, particularly where these grapple with questions posed by technology, posthumanism, feminist and womanist re-vision and theory, queer theory, decoloniality, ecocriticism, and affect theory. She is in the process of publishing her PhD thesis on Creation and Apocalypse in Speculative Fiction, and beginning new projects exploring the queering of biblical narratives in literature, as well as the ethics of “digital afterlives” in the wider media.