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Anna McFarlane is a Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at the University of Glasgow and a Visiting Collaborator on the Wellcome Trust-funded Future Human Reproduction project at the University of Lancaster. She has authored 'Cyberpunk Culture Psychology: Seeing Mirrorshades' (2021) and co-edited several works including the 'Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction Medical Humanities' (2024) and 'Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture' (2020). Her research focuses on fantasy literature, science fiction, genre studies, contemporary literature, medical humanities, posthumanism, and gender feminism, with significant interdisciplinary work in these areas. McFarlane has a long-standing interest in medical humanities, particularly the portrayal of traumatic pregnancy in genre fiction. Her current research project aims to explore representations of reproduction in fantastic fiction and includes activities such as organizing film screenings and research seminars. Additionally, she has received numerous grants, including a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to undertake archival research in several prestigious libraries. McFarlane actively supervises postgraduate students in related research areas, demonstrating her commitment to mentoring the next generation of scholars in her field.