Rate My Professor Kit Macfarlane

Dr Kit MacFarlane serves as a Lecturer in the School of Humanities within the College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities at Adelaide University. She is eligible to supervise Masters and PhD candidates as a Co-Supervisor. Kit has published research, criticism, pop culture analysis, and short fiction in publications such as Senses of Cinema, New Writing, Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice, Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, Transformations, Metro, The Australian, The Weekend Australian Review, The Punch, New Matilda and The Conversation, as well as a regular column on pop culture history for a number of years for online magazine PopMatters. Kit’s main interests lie in exploring popular culture and television history, with research keywords encompassing film, television and pop culture history and analysis.

Dr MacFarlane teaches courses including COMM 1045 Creative Writing Workshop (2025), COMM 1061 Creative Writing and Literature: An Introduction (2025), LANG 2042 Reworking the Canon (2025), LANG 3042 The Writer's World (2025), and LANG 3042 The Writer's World (2024). Her publications include 'Alien in Australia: science fiction, refugee politics and the stranger' (Metro, 2022), 'Hidden forces childhood, commerce and cost in Granaz Moussavi's when pomegranates howl' (Metro, 2021), 'Cinema for claustrophiles: virtual reality at the Adelaide film festival and beyond' (Metro magazine: media & education magazine, 2019), 'Hitting the right note: Janine Hosking's "the eulogy" and the perils of praise' (Metro magazine: media & education magazine, 2019), 'A neoliberal spin: management and masculinity in Stephen McCallum's 1%' (Metro magazine, 2018), 'Impoliteness and destruction in the encapsulating frame: Lynette Wallworth's "Collisions" and virtual reality' (Metro magazine: media & education magazine, 2017), 'The tyranny of the unspoken: the silences, autoethnography and mental health' (Metro magazine, 2016), 'Psychological effects of poetry workshops with people with early stage dementia: an exploratory study' co-authored with Petrescu, I., & Ranzijn, R. (Dementia, 2014), 'A sport, a tradition, a religion, a joke: the need for a poetics of in-ring storytelling and a reclamation of professional wrestling as a global art' (Asiatic, 2012), and contributions to conference proceedings such as 'Conceptualising social networking capabilities: connections, objects, power and affect' (ASCILITE 2010).