Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Profile
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.
Responsibilities
Foundation Year UAP Lead
DGES Curriculum and Support working group member
Web Manager for the Victorian Popular Fiction Association
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
-
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics where Emma Butler-Way is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
- 1 Similar Profiles
-
The Corset in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction: Unlacing the Past
Butler-Way, E., 12 Nov 2026, Bloomsbury. 224 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
-
"The omen never fails": Appropriating Intertexts in Louisa May Alcott's A Long Fatal Love Chase
Butler-Way, E., 03 Jul 2026, In: Victorian Popular Fictions. 8, 1, 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Downloads (Pure) -
Helena Esser, Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory: London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 248 pp. HB £85.00. ISBN: 9781350433908
Butler-Way, E., 11 Jul 2025, In: Victorian Popular Fictions. 7, 1, p. 114-116Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article Review
Open Access -
Liminal Identities: The London Reader’s Mrs. Larkall’s Boarding School (1864) and the Silhouette of Sensation
Butler-Way, E., 28 Jun 2024, In: Victorian Popular Fictions. 6, 1, p. 117-130 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile92 Downloads (Pure) -
'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, E., 13 Dec 2024, In: Wilkie Collins Journal. 4th Series Vol. 1, p. 73-89Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile82 Downloads (Pure) -
Tara Macdonald, Narrative, Affect and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies: (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023), 232 pp., £85.00, ISBN 978-1399522199
Butler-Way, E., 20 Jun 2024, In: Victoriographies. 14, 2, p. 179-181Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article Review
Open AccessFile17 Downloads (Pure) -
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, E., 01 Mar 2023, In: Victoriographies. 13, 1, p. 99-118 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1049 Downloads (Pure) -
Threads of Identity: Fashion, Finery, and Performance in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne and Wilkie Collins’s No Name
Butler-Way, E., 05 Jul 2023, In: Victorian Popular Fictions. 5, 1, p. 110-123 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile171 Downloads (Pure)
Thesis
-
‘Written on the body’: The Sartorial and Somatic Coding in British Sensation Fiction, 1860-1867
Butler-Way, E. (Author), Marggraf Turley, R. (Supervisor), Marshall, L. (Supervisor) & Rodgers, B. (Supervisor), 2022Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
-
18th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association
Butler-Way, E. (Participant)
07 Jul 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference
-
Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities
Butler-Way, E. (Participant)
27 Mar 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference
-
Witsh: In Conversation with Mari Ellis Dunning
Dunning, M. (Speaker) & Butler-Way, E. (Speaker)
31 Oct 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Book Launch
-
17th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association
Butler-Way, E. (Participant)
14 Jul 2025 → 16 Jul 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference
-
16th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association
Butler-Way, E. (Participant)
15 Jul 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference
-
The Syria of Aberystwyth
Bakhti, A. N. (Organiser), Butler-Way, E. (Organiser) & Yallop, J. (Organiser)
03 Oct 2023 → 17 Oct 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Workshop, Seminar, or Course
-
15th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association
Butler-Way, E. (Participant)
12 Jul 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference
-
14th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association
Butler-Way, E. (Participant)
13 Jul 2022 → 15 Jul 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference
-
13th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association
Butler-Way, E. (Participant)
14 Jul 2021 → 16 Jul 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference
-
12th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association
Butler-Way, E. (Participant)
15 Jul 2020 → 17 Jul 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference