Introducing Festival Organisers. Professor Alison Jack Since studying the New Testament as an undergraduate at New College with Professor John O'Neill, Alison has been fascinated by the ongoing influence of biblical texts and the way they have teased and puzzled their readers. Throughout my academic career she has tried to integrate her interest in English and Scottish literature with her study of the Bible, and this has led her to focus on the fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dr Lois McFarland Dr Lois McFarland is Lecturer is Religion and Literature. She teaches The Bible in Literature and Religion and Ethics in Literature and researches in the areas of speculative fiction, AI, posthumanism, Afrofuturism, feminist and womanist re-vision and theory, and queer theory. This article was published on 2024-03-19
