Michael O'Brien

I am a secondary school teacher with a PhD in English literature from the University of Glasgow.

I have been a teacher for twenty years and have taught in Scottish secondary schools and overseas in France.

My PhD highlights that SF and Fantasy authors such as Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Philip José Farmer, and Philip K. Dick require their protagonists to think mythologically to transcend the limits of their material universes.

The thesis is interdisciplinary, inspired by an educational interest in cognitive constructivism, mythology, philosophy, and critical theory.

My publications focus on cognition, ideology, power, desire, utopia, dystopia, and transcendence.