Dr Kit MacFarlane

Lecturer UniSA Creative

Magill Campus (B2-10)
tel +61 8 830 24489

email Kit.MacFarlane@unisa.edu.au

Available for media comment
Research Degree Supervisor

Research

Research focus

Clinical Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Film, Television and Digital Media
Literary Studies

Highlights

Film history and theory,Pop Culture history and theory,Literary Analysis,Cultural Studies

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Chapters

Year	Output
2014	MacFarlane, K & Duruz, JM 2014, 'Technologies of Nostalgia: Vegetarians and Vegans at Addis Ababa Cafe', in JH Choi, M Foth & G Hearn (eds), Eat, Cook, Grow: Mixing Human-Computer Interactions with Human-Food Interactions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Press), Massachusetts, ch. 2, pp. 33-49.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2020	MacFarlane, K 2020, 'New Year's Eve in front of the TV, 1959: What was on, why does it matter, and where can I see it?', Flow, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 1-9. Open access
2019	MacFarlane, K 2019, 'Cinema for claustrophiles: virtual reality at the Adelaide film festival and beyond', Metro, no. 200, pp. 128-135.
2019	MacFarlane, K 2019, 'Hitting the right note: Janine Hosking's 'the eulogy' and the perils of praise', Metro, no. 201, pp. 90-95.
2018	MacFarlane, K 2018, 'A neoliberal spin: management and masculinity in Stephen McCallum's 1%', Metro, vol. 198, pp. 8-14.
2017	MacFarlane, K 2017, 'Impoliteness and destruction in the encapsulating frame: Lynette Wallworth's 'Collisions' and virtual reality', Metro, no. 192, pp. 78-81.
2016	MacFarlane, K 2016, ''A Certain Blind Look': Zizek's 'absolute undecidability' in Joseph Conrad's 'The Duel' and Ridley Scott's The Duellists', Senses of Cinema, no. 79, online. Open access
2016	MacFarlane, K 2016, 'The tyranny of the unspoken: the silences, autoethnography and mental health', Metro, vol. 188, pp. 82-85.
2014	MacFarlane, K 2014, 'Spirits of affirmation: the Darkside', Metro, no. 180, pp. 100-103.
2014	Petrescu, I, MacFarlane, K & Ranzijn, R 2014, 'Psychological effects of poetry workshops with people with early stage dementia: an exploratory study', Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 207-215. 11 9 13
2013	MacFarlane, K 2013, 'Against unremembering: David King's 'Purge'', Metro, no. 178, pp. 14-16.
2012	MacFarlane, K 2012, '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, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 136-155. Open access 3
2012	MacFarlane, K 2012, 'Stooges from space: 'Iron Sky' and the pursuit of lowbrow propaganda', Metro, no. 173, pp. 34-37.
2012	MacFarlane, K 2012, 'The Slap: the heavy hand of a hard-hitting drama', Metro, no. 171, pp. 32-37.
2011	MacFarlane, K 2011, ''You must survive': 'mother fish' and the narrative of suffering', Metro, no. 167, pp. 16-20.
2011	MacFarlane, K 2011, 'An idea too many in 'the human resources manager'', Metro, no. 168, pp. 38-40.
2011	MacFarlane, K 2011, 'Blame: revenge served warm', Metro, no. 169, pp. 8-12.
2011	MacFarlane, K 2011, 'Unplugging the affective domain: can 'slow spaces' really improve the value of cultural literacy?', Transformations, vol. 20, article no. 5, pp. 1-13. Open access

Conferences

Year	Output
2011	Petrescu, I & MacFarlane, K 2011, 'Poetry and cultural bridges: beyond politics and economics', The language of art and music: an international symposium on the potential for artistic expression to cross cultural barriers and the relationship between art, culture and international relations, ICD, pp. 1-7. Open access
2010	Voigt, C & MacFarlane, K 2010, 'The affective domain and social networking: definitorial issues and misleading assumptions', EC-TEL; Fifth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice, MATURE, pp. 1-6. Open access
2010	Voigt, C, Barker, SK, King, SA, MacFarlane, K, Sawyer, TG & Scutter, SD 2010, 'Conceptualising social networking capabilities: connections, objects, power and affect', ASCILITE 2010 Conference, University of Queensland, pp. 1020-1030. Open access

Non Traditional Outputs

Year	Output
2015	MacFarlane, K 2015, Ultima Thule, New Writing: the international journal for the practice and theory of creative writing, Routledge. 1

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
High Achievement (UG Teaching) Student Evaluation Attainment Award Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of South Australia	2017
Outstanding Student Evaluation Attainment Award: Undergraduate Teaching UniSA - Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of South Australia	2016
High Achievement in Student Evaluation Attainment Award: Undergraduate Teaching UniSA - Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences	2015

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Matters of the heART: Examining the impact of artistic encounters on psychological wellbeing	Current
Violets, white feathers and the sisterhood of peace: South Australian women's activism in World War One	Current
The cultural value of digital games and play	Completed

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Dr Kit MacFarlane

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UniSA Creative

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Current research & highlights

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Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

High Achievement (UG Teaching) Student Evaluation Attainment Award

Outstanding Student Evaluation Attainment Award: Undergraduate Teaching

High Achievement in Student Evaluation Attainment Award: Undergraduate Teaching

Teaching & student supervision

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