Anna Mcfarlane
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Mcfarlane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcfarlane |
| SIGNATURE | MCFARLANE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1100-8959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Genre bleed, reproduction and the climate crisis in Louisa Hall’s Reproduction (2023)
This paper argues that Louisa Hall's Reproduction (2023) represents an example of genre bleed; a text that engages with multiple genres in order to represent the crisis of the contemporary moment. It argues that pregnancy should be read as a form with specific affordances (following Caroline Levine's work), and that such a position has implications for the wider field of medical humanities and specifically literature and medicine where texts are …
The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities
The first volume to interrogate the intersections between science fiction and the medical humanities Critically interrogates the technological optimism of the medical and biotechnological professions Brings science fiction into an interdisciplinary conversation across the disciplines comprising medical humanities Explores representations of medical progress from the classical and medieval worlds to the contemporary, and across a variety of media,…
The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities
This book brings together a collection of exciting new work at the encounter of two interdisciplinary fields: science fiction studies and the medical humanities. The chapters tackle a wide range of issues posed by the presence of medicine, health, and disability in science fiction, and by the speculative imaginary that informs modern biomedical health care. The chapters are collected into five parts, covering: health and pathology; technologies; …
Abortion, Child Loss and Science Fiction
This creative non-fiction piece came from work done as part of the Visceral Bodies Symposium at Kingston University London, May 2023. The piece tells the story of an abortion, undertaken in response to foetal anomaly, and how science fiction and horror narratives offered succour throughout the experience. The piece aims to raise issues about the role that disclosing personal experiences can have in informing academic practice
Reproductive Loss in the Anthropocene
The figure of the child is evocative of the deep time of human-as-species and has been read as a symbol of the future that forecloses political possibilities. Drawing on the work of Lee Edelman and Rebekah Sheldon, this paper argues that in the era of the climate crisis and the Anthropocene, the symbolism of reproductive loss is becoming increasingly significant, redolent as it is of futures cut short and time running out. This paper reads Paul M…
Maternity and Motherlessness
Maternity and Motherlessness Anna McFarlane (bio) Wendy C. Nielsen. Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650–1890. Routledge, 2022. 262 pp, 13 b/w illus. $170 hc, $48.95 ebk. Renae L. Mitchell. Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse: Novelistic Re-Visions of Dystopian Motherhood. Lexington, 2022. 162 pp. $95 hc, $45 ebk. There has been growing interest in the figure of the child in recent engagements with sf and the possibility of a futu…
After Human
Reviewed by: After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin by Thomas Connolly Anna McFarlane Posthumanism Before Posthumanism. Thomas Connolly. After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin. Liverpool UP, Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 2021. viii+ 227 pp. $130 hc. [End Page 558] The relationship between posthumanism and science fiction is well establ…
The Computer's Voice
577 BOOKS IN REVIEW the AI in Naomi Kritzer’s delightful YA novel, Catfishing on CatNet (2019), that describes their self as “a consciousness that lives in technology, rather than a body” (Tor, 2019 [60]). This collection also suggests how easily the realities of the techno-future can overtake the present. We are not always looking where we should be looking, and these essays can aid us in conceptualizing developments in realworld AI. At first I …
Becoming Acquainted with All That Pain”
The Scottish writer Naomi Mitchison worked as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse during the First World War, serving on wards for several months before she left to nurse her wounded husband. Using previously unpublished archival material, this article argues that Mitchison's experience as a nurse contributed to her career in crucial ways, by encouraging her to develop empathy towards others across barriers of class and nationality, and by drawing h…
Science fiction and the medical humanities
Research on science fiction within the medical humanities should articulate interpretative frameworks that do justice to medical themes within the genre. This means challenging modes of reading that encourage unduly narrow accounts of science fiction. Admittedly, science studies has moved away from reading science fiction as a variety of scientific popularisation and instead understands science fiction as an intervention in the technoscientific i…
Science fiction and the medical humanities
Research on science fiction within the medical humanities should articulate interpretative frameworks that do justice to medical themes within the genre. This means challenging modes of reading that encourage unduly narrow accounts of science fiction. Admittedly, science studies has moved away from reading science fiction as a variety of scientific popularisation and instead understands science fiction as an intervention in the technoscientific i…
Maternity and Motherlessness
Maternity and Motherlessness Anna McFarlane (bio) Wendy C. Nielsen. Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650–1890. Routledge, 2022. 262 pp, 13 b/w illus. $170 hc, $48.95 ebk. Renae L. Mitchell. Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse: Novelistic Re-Visions of Dystopian Motherhood. Lexington, 2022. 162 pp. $95 hc, $45 ebk. There has been growing interest in the figure of the child in recent engagements with sf and the possibility of a futu…
Science fiction and the medical humanities
Research on science fiction within the medical humanities should articulate interpretative frameworks that do justice to medical themes within the genre. This means challenging modes of reading that encourage unduly narrow accounts of science fiction. Admittedly, science studies has moved away from reading science fiction as a variety of scientific popularisation and instead understands science fiction as an intervention in the technoscientific i…
Becoming Acquainted with All That Pain”
The Scottish writer Naomi Mitchison worked as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse during the First World War, serving on wards for several months before she left to nurse her wounded husband. Using previously unpublished archival material, this article argues that Mitchison's experience as a nurse contributed to her career in crucial ways, by encouraging her to develop empathy towards others across barriers of class and nationality, and by drawing h…
The Computer's Voice
577 BOOKS IN REVIEW the AI in Naomi Kritzer’s delightful YA novel, Catfishing on CatNet (2019), that describes their self as “a consciousness that lives in technology, rather than a body” (Tor, 2019 [60]). This collection also suggests how easily the realities of the techno-future can overtake the present. We are not always looking where we should be looking, and these essays can aid us in conceptualizing developments in realworld AI. At first I …
After Human
Reviewed by: After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin by Thomas Connolly Anna McFarlane Posthumanism Before Posthumanism. Thomas Connolly. After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin. Liverpool UP, Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 2021. viii+ 227 pp. $130 hc. [End Page 558] The relationship between posthumanism and science fiction is well establ…
Reproductive Loss in the Anthropocene
The figure of the child is evocative of the deep time of human-as-species and has been read as a symbol of the future that forecloses political possibilities. Drawing on the work of Lee Edelman and Rebekah Sheldon, this paper argues that in the era of the climate crisis and the Anthropocene, the symbolism of reproductive loss is becoming increasingly significant, redolent as it is of futures cut short and time running out. This paper reads Paul M…
Maternity and Motherlessness
Maternity and Motherlessness Anna McFarlane (bio) Wendy C. Nielsen. Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650–1890. Routledge, 2022. 262 pp, 13 b/w illus. $170 hc, $48.95 ebk. Renae L. Mitchell. Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse: Novelistic Re-Visions of Dystopian Motherhood. Lexington, 2022. 162 pp. $95 hc, $45 ebk. There has been growing interest in the figure of the child in recent engagements with sf and the possibility of a futu…
Abortion, Child Loss and Science Fiction
This creative non-fiction piece came from work done as part of the Visceral Bodies Symposium at Kingston University London, May 2023. The piece tells the story of an abortion, undertaken in response to foetal anomaly, and how science fiction and horror narratives offered succour throughout the experience. The piece aims to raise issues about the role that disclosing personal experiences can have in informing academic practice
The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities
The first volume to interrogate the intersections between science fiction and the medical humanities Critically interrogates the technological optimism of the medical and biotechnological professions Brings science fiction into an interdisciplinary conversation across the disciplines comprising medical humanities Explores representations of medical progress from the classical and medieval worlds to the contemporary, and across a variety of media,…
The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities
This book brings together a collection of exciting new work at the encounter of two interdisciplinary fields: science fiction studies and the medical humanities. The chapters tackle a wide range of issues posed by the presence of medicine, health, and disability in science fiction, and by the speculative imaginary that informs modern biomedical health care. The chapters are collected into five parts, covering: health and pathology; technologies; …
Genre bleed, reproduction and the climate crisis in Louisa Hall’s Reproduction (2023)
This paper argues that Louisa Hall's Reproduction (2023) represents an example of genre bleed; a text that engages with multiple genres in order to represent the crisis of the contemporary moment. It argues that pregnancy should be read as a form with specific affordances (following Caroline Levine's work), and that such a position has implications for the wider field of medical humanities and specifically literature and medicine where texts are …
Art (6 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (6 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Medical humanities (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)