Name Catherine Butler
Faculty ACE
Title of current post Senior Lecturer in English
Qualifications
1984 BA (First Class Honours) in English Literature, Royal Holloway College, University of London 1988 MSc in Information Processing, University of York 1989 DPhil in English Literature, University of York
Previous appointments
1986-87 Part-time teaching on BA in English Literature, University of York 1989-90 Technical author, McDonnell Douglas Information Systems, Cambridge 1990-92 Lecturer in English Literature, Bristol Polytechnic 1992-93 Lecturer in English Literature, University of the West of England 1993-present Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of the West of England
Publications and other public output
Books (authored)
The Darkling (Orion, 1997; McElderry, 1998). Published in Danish as Skyggen Masker (Carlsen, 1998). 169pp.
Timon’s Tide (Orion, 1998; McElderry, 2000).186pp.
Calypso Dreaming (HarperCollins, 2002).191pp.
The Fetch of Mardy Watt (HarperCollins, 2004). 223pp.
Death of a Ghost (HarperCollins, 2006). 202pp.
Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children’s Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Susan Cooper, and Diana Wynne Jones (Scarecrow Press/Children‟s Literature Association, 2006). i-viii+311pp. Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies 2009
The Lurkers (Usborne, 2006). Published in German as Wettlauf Gegen die Zeit (Cora Verlag, 2007). pp.171 Shortlisted for 2007 Southern Schools Book Award
Kiss of Death (Barrington Stoke, 2007). pp48.
Hand of Blood (Barrington Stoke, 2009). Published in Swedish as Den Blodiga Handen (Argasso, 2010). pp55.
Forthcoming: Reading History in Children’s Books. Co-authored with Hallie O‟Donovan (Palgrave, 2012).
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Female Replies to Swetnam the Woman-Hater. Edited with introduction (Thoemmes Press, 1995), pp.v-xli.
Teaching Children’s Fiction. Edited with introduction and appendices. (Palgrave, 2006), pp.1-5, 189-205.
Forthcoming: Roald Dahl: A New Casebook. Co-edited with Ann Alston (Palgrave, 2011).
Scholarly Articles and Chapters
„Integrating computing into the history curriculum,‟ History and Computing 5 (1993), 199- 203.
„The Stagirite and the Scarecrow: Stanza 3 of Cowley‟s ode “To the Royal Society” (1667)‟, Restoration 21 (1997), 1-14.
„Alan Garner‟s Red Shift and the Shifting Ballad of “Tam Lin”‟, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 26.2 (Summer 2001). 74-83. Children’s Literature Association Honor Article (2001)
„“Now Here: Where Now?” Magic as Reality and as Metaphor in the Work of Diana Wynne Jones‟, in Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom, ed. Teya Rosenberg et al (Peter Lang, 2002), 66-78.
„An Interview with Diana Wynne Jones‟, in Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom (Peter Lang, 2002), 163-72.
„“You are feeling very sleepy…”: hypnosis, enchantment and mind-control in children‟s fiction‟, in Children’s Fantasy Fiction: Debates for the Twenty-First Century, ed. Nickianne Moody and Clare Horrocks (Association for Research in Popular Fictions, 2005), 175-90.
„Holiday Work: On Writing for Children and for the Academy.‟ Commissioned article for Children’s Literature in Education. 38.3 (Sept. 2007), 163-72.
„After the Inklings.‟ In The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference, ed. Sarah Wells (Coventry: The Tolkien Society, 2008). Vo1. 1. 238-42.
„Experimental Girls: Feminist and Transgender Discourse in Bill’s New Frock and Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl?‟ Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 34.1 (March 2009). 3-20.
„Children of the Stones: Prehistoric Sites in British Children‟s Fantasy, 1965-2005.‟ In Written on Stone: The Cultural Reception of Prehistoric Monuments, ed. Joanne Parker (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009): 143-54.
Guest co-editor (with Hallie O‟Donovan and Maureen Kincaid Speller) of special issue Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, devoted to Diana Wynne Jones (Dec 2010).
„Psychological Approaches to Children‟s Literature‟; „Postmodernism‟; and „Film Adaptation: The Case of The Secret Garden‟. 171-77, 178-84 and 195-205 in Children’s Literature Studies: A Handbook for Research, edited by M. O. Grenby and Kimberley Reynolds (Palgrave, 2011).
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Forthcoming: „Modern Children‟s Fantasy,‟ in Modern Fantasy Literature, edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (CUP, 2011).
Shorter Academic Works
Review of A Comprehensive Concordance to The Faerie Queene 1590, and the accompanying Textual Companion. Notes and Queries 238 (1993), 538-540.
„Jacobean Literature‟, in The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts (Macmillan, 1998), 275-76.
Review of The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print. Notes and Queries 247 (2002), 515-16.
„Alan Garner.‟ The Literary Encyclopedia.
„Susan Cooper.‟ Literary Encyclopedia. < http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11698> 2006.
„Diana Wynne Jones.‟ Literary Encyclopedia. < http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=6037> 2006.
Review of Douglas A. Brooks (ed.), Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England. Notes and Queries (2007), 102-103.
Review of Robert Greene’s Planetomachia (1585), ed. Nandini Das. Notes and Queries (2009), 1-2.
“The Gothic in Children‟s Literature,” with Hallie O‟Donovan. In The Handbook of the Gothic, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts (Houndmills: Macmillan, 2009) [revised edition]: 129-31.
Obituary of Diana Wynne Jones, Independent, 31st March 2011. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/diana-wynne-jones-doyenne-of-fantasy- writers-whose-books-for-children-paved-the-way-for-jk-rowling-2257675.html
External roles and other professional activities
Publishing and Journal Editing from 1993 Reviewer for Notes & Queries from 2000 Reader for Women’s Writing from 2003 Reader for Children’s Literature Association Quarterly from 2005 Reader for Edinburgh University Press from 2007 Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Children’s Literature Studies from 2007 Member of Editorial Board of Children’s Literature in Education 2010 Guest editor of special issue of Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
Professional Memberships and Roles from 2000 Member of Scattered Authors‟ Society from 2005 Member of the Children‟s Literature Association 2010-13 Article Award Committee of the Children's Literature Association
3 External Examining 2005-2009 External Examiner for English at North Devon College from 2009 External Examiner for MA in Children‟s Literature and Culture, University of Bolton 2010 External Examiner for PhD in Creative Writing/English, Newcastle University
Conference organization 2009 Co-organizer of the Diana Wynne Jones conference held at UWE, 3-5 July, 2009
Guest Appearances 2005 Guest Tutor at Cardiff University children‟s literature summer school 2006 Guest seminar at University of Westminster, English Department 2008 Guest seminar at University of Bolton 2009 Guest of Honour at BristolCon 2010 Guest seminar at University of Bristol, English Department 2010 Invited Speaker at NCRCL conference, Roehampton 2010 Guest of British Science Fiction Association 2010 Invited Speaker at Turkish Board of Education Symposium, Ankara. 2011 Invited panel member at Eastercon (Birmingham) on Diana Wynne Jones.
Project Management 2009-11 Principal Investigator for EU-funded Comenius project worth £175,000, investigating The Learning and Teaching of Children‟s Literature in Europe
Media Work and Consultancy 1998 Interviewed by BBC Radio Bristol on occasion of C. S. Lewis centenary 2002 Interviewed by BBC Radio Bristol on occasion of publication of Calypso Dreaming. from 2003 Moderator for published authors‟ group at the ACHUKA (Children‟s Books UK) website from 2005 Regular reviewer for Armadillo (children‟s book magazine) from 2008 Member of Panel selected by Booktrust to choose the Children‟s Laureate 2009- 11. 2009 Interviewed as “talking head” for BBC Radio 4 programme on Alan Garner 2010 Ran workshops on UK children‟s literacy and literature at Turkish Board of Education Symposium, Ankara
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