Anna McFarlane was awarded an MA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh (2007) followed by an MLitt in Women, Writing and Gender from the University of St Andrews (2008). She has also attended the London Critical Theory Summer School at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (2011). In the past she has worked on issues of identity politics raised by ideas of bodily and mental collectivism in cyberpunk. Now in the second year of her PhD programme, she is continuing to develop these themes and to look further at the fields of technology and personal and social identity.