Lois Wilson-McFarland
Thesis title: Sticky Stories: Affect and Biblical Myth in Women’s Speculative Fiction, 1970-2020
PhD English Literature and Religion
Year of study: 4
- English Literature and Religion
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
- School of Divinity
Contact details
- Email: lois.wilson@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Qualifications
MScR in English Literature, Distinction. The University of Edinburgh, 2018.
MA in English Language and Literature, First Class with Honours. The University of Edinburgh, 2013.
Responsibilities & affiliations
Scottish Network for Religion and Literature. Steering Committee. https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/research/centres/scottish-network-for-religion-and-literature
Undergraduate teaching
The Bible in Literature: course tutor, 2019/20-2021/22
English Literature 1, semester 2: course tutor, 2020/21
Research summary
My research interests are in the field of literature and religion, exploring biblical myth in contemporary speculative fiction.
Current research interests
Speculative fiction, feminisms, affect theory, biblical studies, theology, ecology, queer theoryPapers delivered
“Sticky” Stories: Affect and Biblical Myth in 1970s Speculative Fiction by Rhoda Lerman and Angela Carter. Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference 2022 [forthcoming]. University of Liverpool.
Suspicion, Desire and Indeterminacy in The Power by Naomi Alderman. BACLS Naomi Alderman Conference 2019, Bath Spa University.
“Perhaps She Was Mad”: Science Fiction Genre Protest in Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time. British Association for American Studies 2019, University of Sussex.
“Step Away from the Tree, Eve, with Your Hands Up”: Playfulness as Critique of Scripture in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman. Christianity and Literature Conference 2019, Harvard Divinity School.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles:
Wilson, Lois. “‘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. 30, no. 1, 2021, pp. 95–121. https://doi.org/10.17613/f3wp-m042
Other Media:
Wilson, Lois. "For a Series so Concerned with Leaning into the Horror, The Handmaid’s Tale Utterly Fails to Address Race." US Studies Online: Special Featured Blog Series, Television. 6 Nov. 2019. https://usso.uk/for-a-series-so-concerned-with-leaning-into-the-horror-the-handmaids-tale-utterly-fails-to-address-race/