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

Dr Emma Butler-Way

Lecturer Integrated Foundation Year Programme

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

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Profile

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

I hold a PhD in English Literature from Aberystwyth University - 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 representations of the corset (and, by extension, the female body) in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction.

Responsibilities

Foundation Year UAP Lead

DGES Curriculum and Support working group member

Web Manager for the Victorian Popular Fiction Association

Publications

Butler-Way, E 2025, 'Review of Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory', Victorian Popular Fictions, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 114-116. 10.46911/TWOX2810
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, ''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', Wilkie Collins Journal, vol. 4th Series Vol. 1, pp. 73-89.
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
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