Dr Emma Butler-Way

BA(Hons) English Literature, MA Literary Studies, PhD English (Aberystwyth University), PGCTHE, FHEA

Dr Emma Butler-Way

Lecturer Intergrated Foundation Year Programme

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

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Emma is a Lecturer on Aberystwyth University's Integrated Foundation Year. As the lead on the Humanities stream, she co-ordinates modules that cater specifically to students who will be progressing into the Departments of English and Creative Writing, and Theatre Film and Television Studies. 

Emma holds a PhD in English Literature from Aberystwyth University - her PhD research focused on British sensation fiction of the 1860s, with a specific focus on how it interacts with contemporary fashion narratives. Her current research is broadly focused on representations of the corset (and, by extension, the female body) in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction.

Foundation Year UAP Lead

DGES Curriculum and Support working group member

Web Manager for the Victorian Popular Fiction Association

Liminal Identities: The London Reader’s Mrs. Larkall’s Boarding School (1864) and the Silhouette of Sensation. / Butler-Way, Emma.
In: Victorian Popular Fictions, Vol. 6, No. 1, 28.06.2024, p. 117-130.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

'She had put on the dress which I used to admire more than any other she possessed': Reading Dress and Making Meaning in The Woman in White. / Butler-Way, Emma.
In: Wilkie Collins Journal, Vol. 4th Series Vol. 1, 13.12.2024, p. 73-89.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Tara Macdonald, Narrative, Affect and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies: (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023), 232 pp., £85.00, ISBN 978-1399522199. / Butler-Way, Emma.
In: Victoriographies, Vol. 14, No. 2, 20.06.2024, p. 179-181.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article Review

The Neo-Victorian Corset: Two Narrative Approaches to the Constricting Garment in Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith (2002) and Laura Purcell’s The Corset (2018). / Butler-Way, Emma.
In: Victoriographies, Vol. 13, No. 1, 01.03.2023, p. 99-118.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Review of Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. / Butler-Way, Emma.
In: Victorian Popular Fictions, Vol. 7, No. 1, 11.07.2025, p. 114-116.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article Review

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