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AHRC-funded PhD in English Literature
Associate Lecturer, Univeristy of Lincoln
Tutor, University of Hull
British Association of Victorian Studies Funding Officer
UK Representative of the Juvenilia Press, University of New South Wales
University of Hull’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies Representative
Fin de Siècle Literature and Culture
Approaches to Narrative
Research Specialisms:
Literature
• Romantic and Victorian literature and culture • The collective works of the Brontë siblings • Military biography and poetry • Children's literature and child authors • Victorian sensation fiction
War
• British military history (18th and 19th century) • The Napoleonic Wars • War and society • War trauma • Legacies of war
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
Butcher, Emma, ‘Napoleonic Periodicals and the Childhood Imagination: The Influence of War Commentary on the Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s Glass Town and Angria’, Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 469-486. ISSN 0709-4698
Butcher, Emma, ‘Paternal Trauma: Economic Emasculation and Feminised Fatherhood in Ellen Wood’s George Canterbury’s Will and Pen Oliver’s All But: A Chronicle of Laxenford Life’, Wilkie Collins Journal, vol. 13, no. 1. ISSN 2052-2991.
Chapters in Edited Collections:
Butcher, Emma and Valerie Sanders, ‘Mortal Hostility: Masculinity and Fatherly Conflict in the Glass Town and Angrian Sagas’ in Charlotte Brontë from the Beginnings: New Essays from the Juvenilia to the Major Works eds. Lucy Morrison and Judith Pike (London: Routledge, 2017)
Selected Edited Publications:
Butcher, Emma (ed.), Brontë Studies, Special Issue: The Brontës and the Condition of England, vol. 40, no. 4, ISSN 1474-8932
Butcher, Emma and Emily Bowles (eds.), Peer English, Special Issue: Re(Negotiating) Victorian Biography, vol. 10, no.1.
Encyclopedia Entries:
Butcher, Emma, ‘Lytton Strachey’, Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (London: Routledge, 2016)
Butcher, Emma, ‘George Townley Fullam’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB, 2016)
Select Media Publications:
Butcher, Emma, ‘The Brontës and War’, BBC History Magazine (April 29, 2016)
Butcher, Emma, ‘The secret history of Jane Eyre: Charlotte Brontë’s private fantasy stories’, The Guardian (April 21, 2016)
Butcher, Emma, ‘A most barbarous and revolting murder’, History Today (August 2015)
E. Butcher (2015). Napoleonic Periodicals and the Childhood Imagination: The Influence of War Commentary on Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s Glass Town and Angria. Victorian Periodicals Review. 48(4), pp.469-486.
ER. Butcher, V. Sanders (2016). Mortal Hostility: Masculinity and Fatherly Conflict in the Glass Town and Angrian Sagas. In: Charlotte Brontë from the Beginnings New Essays from the Juvenilia to the Major Works. Routledge,
‘Children Writing War: Exploring the Archives’, University of Lincoln, Lincoln
‘Dispelling the Branwell Myth’, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
'War and the Culture of Childhood in the Nineteenth Century’, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, Oxford.
‘The History of George Townley Fullam and the CSS Alabama’, Greenwich Maritime Forum, Blaydes House, Hull
‘The Brontës and the Napoleonic Wars’, National Army Museum, Army and Navy Club, London
‘Wellington and Napoleon: The Brontës’ Military Heroes’, York Army Museum, York
‘Wellington and Napoleon as Early Brontë Heroes’, Brontë Society Bicentennial Celebration of the Battle of Waterloo, Scandic Grand Place Hotel, Brussels 05/15
‘The Brontës’ Childhood: Fantasy Kingdoms in Tiny Books’, Culture Café Series, University of Hull
‘The Brontës, War and Waterloo’, Brontë Society Summer Festival, Brontë Parsonage, Haworth
‘The Brontës, War and Waterloo: Exhibition Talk’, Yorkshire Bloody Yorkshire, The Tourism Society, Leeds Beckett University
BAVS Conference Workshop: ‘Voice Coaching for Academic Success’, co-organised with Dr Abigail Bouchcher (Glasgow Univeristy), University of Cardiff
‘Victorian Tyrannies’, co-organised with Professor Valerie Sanders, University of Hull
BAVS Conference Workshop: ‘Impact and Alt-Ac’, co-organised with Joanna Taylor (Keele University), Leeds Trinity University
‘Military Masculinities in the Long Nineteenth Century’, co-organised with Anna Maria Barry (Oxford Brookes University), University of Hull. Affiliated with the official Waterloo200 celebrations, the Royal Historical Society, the British Society for Romantic Studies and the British Society for Victorian Studies.
Northern Nineteenth Century Network: ‘From PhD to ECR’, co-organised with Emily Bowles, University of York
‘The Rise and Fall of Victorian Biography’, co-organised with Emily Bowles (York University), University of Hull
BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker 2017
AHRC-funded PhD in English Literature
Yablon Visiting Fellowship in Brontë Studies. Chawton House Library, Hampshire
Wellcome Trust Small Grant Scheme (£4000), ‘The Legacies of War Trauma’, Co-Investigator with Dr James Rogers, University of York.
‘The Brontës, War and Waterloo’, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 [http://www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on/168/the-brontes-war-and-waterloo/173]
Talking Head, Being the Brontës. BBC2, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03kcd3l]
Interview, ‘The Brontë Collection in Chawton House’, Chawton House Library Conversations, [http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?p=60830]
Interview, ‘The Brontës, War and Waterloo’, Living North, [http://www.livingnorth.com/yorkshire/arts-whats/brontës-war-and-waterloo]
Interview, ‘The Brontës and War’, Arts and Humanities Research Council, [http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/research/readwatchlisten/features/brontesandwar/]