Dr Andrew Butler

Research Projects

• ‘Your transness, your otherness is your superpower’, Transgender identities, Power and Representation in the UK Theatre industry.. Researcher(s): MX Natalie Murphy. Supervisor(s): Dr Marissia Fragkou, Dr Andy Birtwistle. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Androids and Electric People: A Study of Extropy, Transhumanism and Singularitarianism in Cyberpunk Cinema and Popular Culture. Researcher(s): Mr Jon Vass. Supervisor(s): Dr Andrew Butler, Dr Mitch Goodrum. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Bringing the online anime community together through design: analysing and developing methods to bring online spaces together within anime fandom.. Researcher(s): Miss Zoe Deeley. Supervisor(s): Dr Kate McLean, Dr Andrew Butler. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Depictions of Sexuality in Film and their merit as Artistic, looking at whether sexual and sensual images can be artistic. Researcher(s): Mr Robert Wiffen. Supervisor(s): Dr Andrew Butler, Dr Kenneth Fox. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Digital transformations in the local newspaper sectors in Belgium, Italy and the United Kingdom: a European comparative analysis.. Researcher(s): Miss Aurora Patera. Supervisor(s): Professor Agnes Gulyas, Dr Andrew Butler, Dr Andy Birtwistle. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Dr Jane CoomberSewell. Supervisor(s): Dr Andrew Butler, Dr Stefania Ciocia. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Graphic language and methodology in painting. Researcher(s): Mr Ju Li. Supervisor(s): Dr Katie McGown, Dr Andy Birtwistle, Dr Andrew Butler. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• How Does the Marvel Cinematic Universe Function as Reactive Storytelling?. Researcher(s): Mr Daniel Johnson. Supervisor(s): Dr Nicholas Furze, Dr Mitch Goodrum, Dr Andrew Butler. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• How does the transmedia structure of “Fate” work to interrogate prominent mythological/historical figures? To what extent does the franchise’s intertextuality make us reconsider the gendering of such cultural archetypes?. Researcher(s): Mr Ethan Gurr. Supervisor(s): Dr Andrew Butler, Professor Chris Pallant. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Intersectional Feminism in 21st Century Horror Cinema. Researcher(s): Miss Eleanor Piper. Supervisor(s): Dr Andrew Butler, Dr Magz Hall. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• People not just books: An investigation into the knowledge and experience of Trauma Informed Practice in the Justice System. Researcher(s): Miss Catherine O'Neill. Supervisor(s): Dr Katarina Ozcakir Mozova, Dr Martin O'Neill, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Smallfilms’ animation and its legacy: nostalgic whimsy, or a subversive expression of hope and possibility rooted in the folk/fairytale tradition?. Researcher(s): Ms Sue Goddard. Supervisor(s): Professor Chris Pallant, Dr Andrew Butler. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• The Camera in Conservation: Determining photography’s place in the preservation of wildlife. Researcher(s): Mr Robert Day. Supervisor(s): Ms Miranda Hutton, Professor Shane Blackman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The Representation of Homosexual Males in American Film and Its Reflection of Society from 1980 to the Present Day. Researcher(s): Miss MELISSA COUCHMAN. Supervisor(s): Dr Andrew Butler, Professor Chris Pallant. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The title will depend on the candidate's revisions, but something such as "The Production and Meaning of A Canterbury Tale" would be a good starting point.. Researcher(s): Mr Darren Hinkley. Supervisor(s): Mr Eddie McMillan, Professor Alastair Borthwick. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The weaponized camera. The fetishism of an image and how the camera provides power; looking at the female body and how it is presented in fashion photography, specifically the depiction of death through the female form.. Researcher(s): Miss Jodie Sherrell. Supervisor(s): Ms Miranda Hutton, Dr Andrew Butler. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Theological underpinnings to horror genre: Evil as the private of the good (Augustine) Theodicy an inherent thesis in horror film. Researcher(s): Mr Lewis Hughan. Supervisor(s): Dr Ivan Khovacs, Dr Andrew Butler. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• This is to be delivered by the candidate and put to the examiners.. Researcher(s): Mr Michael Walsh. Supervisor(s): Dr Nicholas Furze, Dr Andrew Butler. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• To interpret past/present experiences and research into what I ‘see’, how I interpret inner tension within and around portraiture and figurative works.. Researcher(s): Mrs June Nolan. Supervisor(s): Ms Euphemia MacTavish, Dr Andrew Butler. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Trans-Monstrous - How do horror films of the 2010s represent the feelings of dysphoria and other aspects of transgender culture, through the metaphors of possession and transformation and lead in creating the New Monstrous Trans Reading?. Researcher(s): Mr Ty Williamson. Supervisor(s): Dr Liz Samson, Dr Andrew Butler. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• UK News Coverage of Extended Reality Technologies: Analysing extended reality news discourse and its relation to product marketing. Researcher(s): Miss Emma Graves. Supervisor(s): Dr Ruth Sanz Sabido, Dr Andrew Butler. [Postgraduate Research Project]

• “Why don’t you go home?”: The folk horror revival in contemporary Cornish gothic films Butler, Andrew M, (09 Oct 2023), The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror. London: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• Post-imperial melancholy in English utopias of the long seventies Butler, A., The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture, 1945-2020: Cambridge University Press. [Book chapter]
• Science fiction at a crossroads? Butler, A., (Dec 2022): Science Fiction Foundation. [Journal article]
• “A New Rose Hotel is a New Rose Hotel is a New Rose Hotel”: Non-Places in William Gibson’s screen adaptations Butler, A., (Mar 2020), William Gibson and the Future of Contemporary Culture. Iowa City. [Book chapter]
• Early cyberpunk film (1980-1999) Butler, A., (30 Jun 2021), The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture. London: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• Quest for Love: A cosy uchronia? Butler, A., (25 Sep 2019), Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [Book chapter]
• Fabulation and salvation [in Reviews of books] Butler, A., (01 Jul 2018): Liverpool University Press. [Journal article]
• Invoking the holy trilogy: star wars in the Askewniverse Butler, A., (15 Jun 2018), Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Book chapter]
• Riding the new wave Butler, A., (30 Nov 2018), The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Book chapter]
• [Review of] Peter Dickens and James S. Ormrod, eds. the Palgrave handbook of society, culture and outer space. Houndmills, Basingstoke and London, 2016. 480 pp. Cloth, £135, ISBN 978-1-137-36351-0. Butler, A., (01 Jan 2017): Penn State University Press. [Journal article]
• Cogging-ative estrangement Butler, A., (Nov 2017): SF-TH Inc.. [Journal article]
• British science fiction Butler, A., (May 2016), The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Book chapter]
• Splinter swiftly: the hermeneuting parallax of Adam Roberts’s generic auteurship Butler, A., (04 Oct 2016), Adam Roberts Critical Essays. Canterbury: Gylphi. [Book chapter]
• Strange boys, queer boys: gay representations in young adult fantastic fiction Butler, A., (20 Jun 2016), Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy: Beyond Boy Wizards and ‘Kick-Ass’ Chicks. London: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• The Arthur C. Clarke award: thirty years on Butler, A., (2016): The Science Fiction Foundation. [Journal article]
• Walking in the Canterbury night-time economy: drinking destination or destination drinking? Butler, A., McPherson, R., (23 Apr 2016), Drinking Space and Places. [Conference poster]
• Abjection and the constructions of race and racism in district 9 Butler, A., (12 Feb 2015), Alien Imaginations: Science Fiction and Tales of Transnationalism. New York: Bloomsbury. [Book chapter]
• Disfigured myth: the destruction of London in postmillennial SF film Butler, A., (07 Dec 2015): The Science Fiction Foundation. [Journal article]
• New Wave At-itudes Butler, A., (Mar 2015): SF-TH Inc.. [Journal article]
• Quest for Love: a cosy uchronia? Butler, A., Sideways in Time: Alternate History and Counterfactual Narratives. [Conference paper]
• Sleeping/waking: politicizing the sublime in science fiction film special effects Butler, A., (Jul 2015), Endangering Science Fiction Film. New York and London: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• Terry Pratchett appreciation Butler, A., (2015): The Science Fiction Foundation. [Journal article]
• The estranged case of Ivan Istochnikov: the uncanny indexicality of SF photographs Butler, A., Current Work in Speculative Fiction. [Conference keynote]
• Bearly conscious? Deconstructing Pullman’s postmodern marionettes Butler, A., (15 Jul 2014), Philip Pullman. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Book chapter]
• Beyond New Worlds: John Carnell’s new writings Butler, A., The Science Fiction New Wave at Fifty. [Conference paper]
• Futurology Butler, A., (23 Oct 2014), The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Book chapter]
• Splinter swiftly: the hermeneuting parallax of Adam Roberts’s generic auteurship Butler, A., New Genre Army: An International Conference on the Writing of Adam Roberts. [Conference keynote]
• Taming death: the construction of human/alien nature in Avatar Butler, A., Wildlife and Society: Challenges for a Shared Future. [Conference paper]
• The Tain and the Tain: China Miéville’s gift of uncanny London Butler, A., (2013): The Michigan State University Press. [Journal article]
• Unimportant failures? The fall and rise of The Man Who Fell to Earth Butler, A., (16 Sep 2013), Science Fiction across Media: Adaptation/Novelization. Canterbury: Gylphi. [Book chapter]
• Worlds apart? Hollywood, Philip K. Dick and other war crimes Butler, A., Worlds Apart Science Fiction Conference. [Conference keynote]
• He do the polis in different voices: Mieville’s uncanny cities in The City and The City Butler, A., Weird Council: an International Conference on the Writing of China Miéville. [Conference paper]
• Moon: toward the cognitive uncanny Butler, A., Worlds Apart Science Fiction Conference. [Conference paper]
• Psychoanalysis and fantasy Butler, A., The Cambridge Companion to Modern Fantasy Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Book chapter]
• Solar flares: science fiction in the 1970s Butler, A.. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [Book]
• "The man who fell to earth": the messiah and the amphicatastrophe Butler, A., Heroes, Monsters and Values: Science Fiction Films of the 1970s. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Book chapter]
• Beyond the Gernsback/Campbell continuum: rereading and rewriting Wells for the 1970s Butler, A., H. G. Wells: From Kent to Cosmopolis Conference. [Conference paper]
• Journeys beyond being: the cyberpunk-flavored novels of Jeff Noon Butler, A., (2010), Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• The good life? The cosiness of survivors Butler, A., Westminster English Colloquium 16: Apocalypse and its Discontents. [Conference paper]
• Fifty key figures in science fiction, (Jul 2009), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction. Oxford, UK: Routledge. [Book]
• Iain M. Banks Butler, A., (31 Jul 2009), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction. Oxford, UK: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• Jean Baudrillard Butler, A., (31 Jul 2009), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction. Oxford, UK: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• Loving that which you can lose: Solaris, the Seventies and the Science Fiction Art Film Butler, A., Nothing Happens: Narrative Suspension in Film and Video. [Conference paper]
• Machines extraordinaires: Going beyond the Gernsback-Campbell Continuum in Seventies Science Fiction Butler, A., Extraordinary Voyages: Jules Verne and Beyond - Eaton Science Fiction Conference. [Conference paper]
• Medusa laughs: birds, thieves and other unruly women Butler, A., (15 May 2009), On Joanna Russ. Connecticut, USA: Wesleyan University Press. [Book chapter]
• Peeling, crashing, crying and electric love: The discovery of male homosexuality in 1970s science fiction Butler, A., Queering Paradigms. [Conference paper]
• Philip K. Dick Butler, A., (31 Jul 2009), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction. Oxford: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• Psychoanalysis Butler, A., (30 Jan 2009), The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Oxford, UK: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• Saying the words you can't say on television on television: Dysphemism and the poetics of ''bad'' language Butler, A., Playing for Laughs. [Conference paper]
• The Routledge companion to science fiction. London: Routledge. [Book]
• Unimportant failures: The fall and rise of the man who fell to Earth Butler, A., Science Fiction Across Media: Adaption/Novelisation. [Conference paper]
• An unofficial companion to the novels of Terry Pratchett Butler, A., (2008). Santa Barbara, USA: Praeger. [Book]
• Philip K. Dick Butler, A., (2007). Harpenden, UK: Pocket Essentials. [Book]
• Terry Pratchett Butler, A., (2007). Harpenden, UK: Pocket Essentials. [Book]
• Purloining of an agenda, or, a spectre is haunting John Clute Butler, A., (2006), Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute. Baltimore, USA: Old Earth Books. [Book chapter]
• Roundtable on science fiction criticism Butler, A., (2006): SF-TH Inc.. [Journal article]
• The Arthur C. Clarke Award: a critical anthology, (2006): Serendip Foundation. [Book]
• The Sparrow: music, food, sex Butler, A., (2006), The Arthur C. Clarke Award: a critical anthology: Serendip Foundation. [Book chapter]
• ''The rumour is we're slaves'' Michael Coney's early novels Butler, A., (Mar 2005), Further Perspectives on the Canadian Fantastic: Proceedings of the 2003 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Canada: ACCSFF. [Book chapter]
• A celebration of British science fiction Sawyer, A., Butler, A., Mendlesohn, F., (2005). Guildford: Science Fiction Foundation. [Book]
• Between the ''Deaths'' of science fiction: a skeptical view of anti-genres Butler, A., (2005): The International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts. [Journal article]
• Beyond Competing for Beer Money: The Criticism of Christopher Priest Butler, A., (01 Aug 2005), Christopher Priest: The Interaction. UK: Science Fiction Foundation. [Book chapter]
• Blade Runner Butler, A., (30 Sep 2005), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Themes, Works and Wonders. Santa Barbara, USA: Greenwood Press. [Book chapter]
• Christopher Priest: the interaction, (2005). London: Science Fiction Foundation. [Book]
• Comedy Butler, A., (30 Sep 2005), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Themes, Works and Wonders. Santa Barbara, USA: Greenwood Press. [Book chapter]
• Discontinuity and D.G. Compton's The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe Butler, A., (2005). [Journal article]
• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Butler, A., (30 Sep 2005), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Themes, Works and Wonders. Santa Barbara, USA: Greenwood Press. [Book chapter]
• Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1985) Butler, A., (30 Sep 2005), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Themes, Works and Wonders. Santa Barbara, USA: Greenwood Press. [Book chapter]
• LSD, Lying Ink and Lies, Inc Butler, A., (2005). [Journal article]
• Metropolis (1926) Butler, A., (30 Sep 2005), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Themes, Works and Wonders. Santa Barbara, USA: Greenwood Press. [Book chapter]
• Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Butler, A., (25 Apr 2005), The Popular and the Canonical: Debating Twentieth-Century Literature 1940-2000. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• Reading 'Red': portrait of a fairy tale Butler, A., (2005): British Science Fiction Association. [Journal article]
• Robert Sheckley's Comic Labyrinths Butler, A., (2005): British Science Fiction Association. [Journal article]
• Sexuality Butler, A., (30 Sep 2005), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Themes, Works and Wonders. Santa Barbara, USA: Greenwood Press. [Book chapter]
• Thanks for the memories: The films of Philip K. Dick Butler, A., (2005): British Science Fiction Association. [Journal article]
• The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (1990) Butler, A., (30 Sep 2005), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Themes, Works and Wonders. Santa Barbara, USA: Greenwood Press. [Book chapter]
• The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard Butler, A., (30 Sep 2005), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Themes, Works and Wonders. Santa Barbara, USA: Greenwood Press. [Book chapter]
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1962) Butler, A., (30 Sep 2005), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Themes, Works and Wonders. Santa Barbara, USA: Greenwood Press. [Book chapter]
• The Republic of Heaven: The betrayal of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy Butler, A., (Mar 2005), Children's Fantasy Fiction: Debates for the Twenty First Century. Liverpool, UK: Media Critical and Creative Arts, Liverpool John Moores University and Association for Research in Popular Fictions. [Book chapter]
• The View from Alderney - Kenneth Vye Bailey (1914-2005) Butler, A., (2005): British Science Fiction Association. [Journal article]
• The View from Behind the Sofa Butler, A., (2005): British Science Fiction Association. [Journal article]
• The View from Retirement Butler, A., (2005): British Science Fiction Association. [Journal article]
• The View from the Armadillo Butler, A., (2005): British Science Fiction Association. [Journal article]
• The View from the Erasmus Building Butler, A., (2005): British Science Fiction Association. [Journal article]
• The View from the Stool and Steps Butler, A., (2005): British Science Fiction Association. [Journal article]
• Total Recall (1990) Butler, A., (30 Sep 2005), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Themes, Works and Wonders. Santa Barbara, USA: Greenwood Press. [Book chapter]
• William Gibson: Neuromancer Butler, A., (01 Aug 2005), A Companion to Science Fiction. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. [Book chapter]
• “We Has Found the Enemy and They Is Us”: Virtual war and empathy in four children’s science fiction novels Butler, A., (Apr 2004). [Journal article]
• Going Uphill: An interview with Gwyneth Jones Butler, A., (2004): Cleveland State University. [Journal article]
• Theories of humour Butler, A., (2004), Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature. Baltimore, USA: Old Earth Books. [Book chapter]
• Life, liberty and the pursuit of the post-human: An interview with Ken MacLeod Butler, A., (2003), The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod. Reading: The Science Fiction Foundation. [Book chapter]
• Non-linear narrative(s) in Philip Pullman's Penny Dreadfuls Butler, A., (2003). [Journal article]
• Philip Pullman Butler, A., (2003), Supernatural Fiction Writers: Charles Scribner's Sons. [Book chapter]
• Postmodernism and science fiction Butler, A., (2003), The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Book chapter]
• Thirteen ways of looking at the British boom Butler, A., (Nov 2003). [Journal article]
• Proto-SF/proto-queer: the strange cases of Dr Frankenstein and Mr Hyde Butler, A., (2002): The Science Fiction Foundation. [Journal article]
• Work and masculine identity in Kevin Smith's New Jersey Trilogy Butler, A., (2001): M/C - Media and Culture. [Journal article]
• 'My particular virus': (re)reading Jack Womack’s Dryco Chronicles Butler, A., (2000), Speaking Science Fiction: Dialogues and Interpretations. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [Book chapter]
• Journeys beyond being: the cyberpunk-flavoured novels of Jeff Noon Butler, A., (2000), Novel Turns Towards 2000: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Narrative Writing from Western Europe. Melbourne: Vox Hispanica. [Book chapter]
• Towards a language for science fiction studies: narratives Butler, A., (2000): M/C - Media and Culture. [Journal article]
• Science fiction writing Butler, A., (1999), Pears Cyclopaedia 1998-1999. London: Penguin. [Book chapter]
• Science fiction as postmodernism: the case of Philip K. Dick Butler, A., (1996), Impossibility Fiction: Alternativity, Extrapolation, Speculation. Amsterdam: Rodopi. [Book chapter]