Dr Emma Butler-Way BA(Hons) English Literature, MA Literary Studies, PhD (Aberystwyth University), AFHEA

Dr Emma Butler-Way

Lecturer Integrated Foundation Year Programme

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

Contact Details

Teaching

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My teaching on the Integrated Foundation Year is focused around the Humanities, catering specifically to students who will be progressing into the Departments of English and Creative Writing, and Theatre Film and Television Studies, while also lecturing on broader core and skills-based modules. I also teach in the Department of English and Creative Writing, focused around nineteenth-century literature, and ideas of place and self.

Research

My PhD research focused on British sensation fiction of the 1860s, with a specific focus on how it interacts with contemporary fashion narratives. My current research is broadly focused on Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction, and textual representations of the corset and, by extension, the female body.

Publications

Butler-Way, E 2024, 'Liminal Identities: The London Reader’s Mrs. Larkall’s Boarding School (1864) and the Silhouette of Sensation', Victorian Popular Fictions, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 117-130. 10.46911/XDPV6887
Butler-Way, E 2024, 'Tara Macdonald, Narrative, Affect and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies: (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023), 232 pp., £85.00, ISBN 978-1399522199', Victoriographies, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 179-181. 10.3366/vic.2024.0533
Butler-Way, E 2023, 'The Neo-Victorian Corset: Two Narrative Approaches to the Constricting Garment in Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith (2002) and Laura Purcell’s The Corset (2018)', Victoriographies, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 99-118. 10.3366/vic.2023.0481
Butler-Way, E 2023, 'Threads of Identity: Fashion, Finery, and Performance in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne and Wilkie Collins’s No Name', Victorian Popular Fictions, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 110-123. 10.46911/LQAE9908
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