Dr Andrew Butler

Research Projects

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