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Dr Catherine Butler
Reader
Ysgol Saesneg, Cyfathrebu ac Athroniaeth
- ButlerC6@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 29208 75971
- Adeilad John Percival , Ystafell 2.41, Rhodfa Colum, Caerdydd, CF10 3EU
Trosolwyg
I joined Cardiff University in 2015, having previous worked at the University of the West of England in Bristol. My first academic interest was in Renaissance poetry but I now specialize in children's literature.
I am the author of two monographs and the editor of five academic volumes, as well as having published six novels for children and young adults. I am also associate editor of the journal Children’s Literature in Education.
I am part of the School's English Literature research theme.
Additional publications
Books (academic)
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.
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
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. Guest editor (with Hallie O’Donovan and Maureen Kincaid Speller) of special issue devoted to Diana Wynne Jones (Dec 2010).
Reading History in Children’s Books. Co-authored with Hallie O’Donovan (Palgrave, 2012). i-ix+207pp.
Roald Dahl: A New Casebook. Co-edited with Ann Alston (Palgrave, 2012). i-xiii+202pp.
Philip Pullman: A New Casebook. Co-edited with Thomas Halsdorf (Palgrave, 2014).
Modern Children’s Literature (2nd Rev. Edition). Edited with Kimberley Reynolds (Palgrave, 2014). i-xii+287pp.
Forthcoming: The Lion and the Unicorn. Guest editor (edited with Alison Waller and Elizabeth Hale) of special issue devoted to Margaret Mahy (2015).
Books (fiction)
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.
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.
Twisted Winter. Edited with introduction. (A & C Black, 2013). pp.144. Includes story, “A Dog is For Life”: 103-19.
Project Reports
The Learning and Teaching of Children’s Literature (Comenius sub-programme of EACEA Lifelong Learning Programme, 2012).
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 Quarterly26.2 (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 Discourses 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.
‘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).
‘Modern Children’s Fantasy,’ in The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (CUP, 2012). 224-35.
‘Reflecting on Reflections’ and ‘A Conversation with Diana Wynne Jones’, in Diana Wynne Jones, Reflections (David Fickling, 2012). ix-xviii, 255-79.
‘Introduction’, in Roald Dahl: A New Casebook, edited by Ann Alston and Catherine Butler (Palgrave, 2012). 1-13.
‘La Fantasy pour la jeunesse dans les iles britanniques.’ La Revue des Livres Pour Enfants (Feb 2013): 104-109.
‘Critiquing Calypso: Authorial and Academic Bias in the Reading of a Young Adult Novel’, Children's Literature in Education. 44.3 (2013), 264-79.
‘Tolkien and Worldbuilding’, in Tolkien and Children’s Fiction: A New Casebook, edited by Peter Hunt (Palgrave, 2013), 106-120.
‘Enchanting Places: Readers and Pilgrimage in the Novels of Diana Wynne Jones’, Strange Horizons, 27 October 2014.
Forthcoming: ‘Margaret Mahy – Librarian of Babel’ in The Lion and the Unicorn (2015).
Forthcoming: ‘Children’s Literature: Ideologies of the Past, Present and Future’, in Clare Hanson and Susan Watkins (eds.) The History of British Women’s Writing, 1945-75, Vol. 9 (2015).
Forthcoming: ‘Counterfactuals Historical Fiction’, in Maria Nikolajeva and Clementine Beauvais, eds., The Edinburgh Companion to Children’s Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).
Miscellaneous Publications
‘Want to save the United Kingdom? Move the capital to Glasgow’, The Guardian, 19 June 2014.
‘Plato’s Orpheus’ [poem], Strange Horizons. 6 October 2014.
‘Taking Children’s Literature Seriously,’ The Author, CXXV (Winter 2014), 126-27.
Cyhoeddiad
2023
- Butler, C. 2023. British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses. [British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses]. Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature. London: Bloomsbury.
2021
- Butler, C. 2021. The Green Knowe books - a patchwork of genres. In: Watson, V. et al. eds. Lucy Boston: An Artist in Everything She Did. Cambridge: Oldknow Books, pp. 37-52.
- Butler, C. 2021. Lost futures: reading, memory and repression. International Research in Children's Literature 14(2), pp. 156-168. (10.3366/ircl.2021.0394)
2020
- Butler, C. 2020. Children's literature research in a world of Coronavirus. Japan Society for Children's Literature in English Newsletter 2020(Autumn), pp. 8-13.
- Butler, C. 2020. Japan reads the Cotswolds: Tourism, children’s literature and the Japanese imagination. Children's Literature 48, pp. 198-233. (10.1353/chl.2020.0008)
- Butler, C. 2020. The Cotswolds and children’s literature in Japanese fantasy: the case of Castle Combe. In: Seaton, P. and Yamamura, T. eds. Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom: Transnational Tourist Experiences. Channel View Publications
- Butler, C. 2020. Portraying trans people in children’s and young adult literature: problems and challenges. Journal of Literary Education 3, pp. 10-24. (10.7203/JLE.3.15992)
2019
- Butler, C. 2019. Shoujo versus Seinen? Address and reception in Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011). Children's Literature in Education 50, pp. 400-416. (10.1007/s10583-018-9355-9)
- Butler, C. 2019. Arrietty comes home: Studio Ghibli's The Borrower Arrietty and its English-language dubs. Annals of The Institute for Comparative Studies of Culture 80, pp. 57-71.
2018
- Butler, C. 2018. Literary studies deconstructed: A polemic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-3-319-90475-7)
2017
- Butler, C. 2017. Counterfactual historical fiction for children and young adults. In: Beauvais, C. and Nikolajeva, M. eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature. Edinburgh Companions to Literature Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 179-193.
- Butler, C. 2017. Children's literature: Ideologies of the past, present and future. In: Hanson, C. and Watkins, S. eds. The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-75., Vol. 9. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan
2015
- Butler, C. 2015. Diana Wynne Jones and Bristol. In: Mulvey-Roberts, M. ed. Literary Bristol: Writers and the City. Bristol: Redcliffe Press, pp. 179-195.
- Butler, C. 2015. Margaret Mahy: librarian of Babel. Lion and the Unicorn 39(2), pp. 129-145. (10.1353/uni.2015.0014)
- Butler, C. 2015. The "Grand Tour" as transformative experience in children's novels about the Roman invasion. In: Maurice, L. ed. The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature: Heroes and Eagles. Brill, pp. 259-279.
2014
- Reynolds, K. and Butler, C. eds. 2014. Modern children’s literature: an introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Butler, C. 2014. Enchanting places: readers and pilgrimage in the novels of Diana Wynne Jones. Strange Horizons 2014(27 Oct)
- Butler, C. 2014. Plato’s Orpheus [poem]. Strange Horizons 2014(6 Oct)
- Butler, C. 2014. Want to save the United Kingdom? Move the capital to Glasgow [Newspaper Article]. The Guardian 2014(19 Jn)
- Butler, C. and Halsdorf, T. eds. 2014. Philip Pullman. New Casebooks. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Butler, C. 2014. Taking Children’s Literature seriously. The Author CXXV, pp. 126-127.
2013
- Butler, C. 2013. Tolkien and worldbuilding. In: Hunt, P. ed. Tolkien and Children’s Fiction: A New Casebook. New Casebooks Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 106-120.
- Butler, C. ed. 2013. Twisted winter. Quicksilver. A & C Black Childrens & Educational.
- Butler, C. 2013. Critiquing calypso: authorial and academic bias in the reading of a young adult novel. Children's Literature in Education 44(3), pp. 264-279. (10.1007/s10583-012-9189-9)
- Butler, C. 2013. La Fantasy pour la jeunesse dans les iles britanniques. La Revue des Livres Pour Enfants, pp. 104-109.
- Butler, C. 2013. Introduction. In: Butler, C. ed. Twisted Winter. Quicksilver A & C Black Childrens & Educational, pp. 7-10.
- Butler, C. 2013. A dog is for life. In: Butler, C. ed. Twisted Winter. Quicksilver A&C Black Childrens & Educational, pp. 103-119.
2012
- Alston, A. and Butler, C. eds. 2012. Roald Dahl. New Casebooks. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
- Butler, C. and O'Donovan, H. 2012. Reading history in children's books. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Butler, C. 2012. Reflecting on Reflections. In: Jones, D. W. ed. Reflections: On the Magic of Writing. Oxford: David Fickling Books, pp. ix-xviii.
- Butler, C. 2012. A conversation with Diana Wynne Jones. In: Jones, D. W. ed. Reflections: On the Magic of Writing. Oxford: David Fickling Books, pp. 255-279.
- Butler, C. 2012. Modern children’s fantasy. In: James, E. and Mendlesohn, F. eds. The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature. Cambridge Companions to Literature Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 224-235.
- Butler, C. 2012. Introduction. In: Alston, A. and Butler, C. eds. Roald Dahl: A New Casebook. New Casebooks Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-13.
2011
- Butler, C. 2011. Psychological approaches to children’s literature. In: Grenby, M. O. and Reynolds, K. eds. Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 171-177.
- Butler, C. 2011. Postmodernism. In: Grenby, M. O. and Reynolds, K. eds. Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 178-184.
- Butler, C. 2011. Film adaptation: the case of The Secret Garden. In: Grenby, M. O. and Reynolds, K. eds. Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-205.
2010
- O’Donovan, H., Kincaid Speller, M. and Butler, C. 2010. Diana Wynne Jones. Special issue of Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. Vol. 21, No. 2. International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.
2009
- Butler, C. 2009. Hand of blood. Gr8reads. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke.
- Butler, C. 2009. Experimental girls: feminist and transgender discourses in Bill’s New Frock and Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl?. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 34(1), pp. 1-20. (10.1353/chq.0.1889)
- Butler, C. 2009. The learning and teaching of children’s literature in Europe. Project Report. [Online]. Bristol: Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency. Available at: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/project_reports/documents/comenius/all/com_mp_503589_ltcl.pdf
- Butler, C. 2009. Children of the stones: prehistoric sites in British children’s fantasy, 1965-2005. In: Parker, J. ed. Written on Stone: The Cultural Reception of Prehistoric Monuments. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 143-154.
2008
- Butler, C. 2008. After the Inklings. In: Wells, S. ed. The Ring Goes Ever on - Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference: v. 1&2: 50 Years of The Lord of the Rings., Vol. 1. Coventry: The Tolkien Society, pp. 238-242.
2007
- Butler, C. 2007. Holiday work: on writing for children and for the academy. Children’s Literature in Education 38(3), pp. 163-172. (10.1007/s10583-007-9042-8)
- Butler, C. 2007. Kiss of death. Gr8reads. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke.
2006
- Butler, C. 2006. The Lurkers. London: Usborne.
- Butler, C. 2006. Four British fantasists: place and culture in the children’s fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Susan Cooper, and Diana Wynne Jones. Lanham: Children's Literature Association and Scarecrow Press.
- Butler, C. ed. 2006. Teaching children's fiction. Teaching the new English. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Butler, C. 2006. Introduction. In: Butler, C. ed. Teaching Children’s Fiction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-15.
- Butler, C. 2006. Death of a ghost. London: HarperCollins Children's.
2005
- Butler, C. 2005. “You are feeling very sleepy…”: hypnosis, enchantment and mind-control in children’s fiction. In: Moody, N. and Horrocks, C. eds. Children’s Fantasy Fiction: Debates for the Twenty-First Century. Liverpool John Moores University and the Association for Research in Popular Fictions, pp. 175-190.
2004
- Butler, C. 2004. The fetch of Mardy Watt. London: Collins Voyager.
2002
- Butler, C. 2002. “Now here: where now?” Magic as reality and as metaphor in the work of Diana Wynne Jones. In: Rosenberg, T. et al. eds. Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom. Peter Lang, pp. 66-78.
- Butler, C. 2002. An Interview with Diana Wynne Jones. In: Rosenberg, T. et al. eds. Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom. Peter Lang, pp. 163-172.
- Butler, C. 2002. Calypso dreaming. London: Collins Voyager.
2001
- Butler, C. 2001. Alan Garner’s Red Shift and the shifting ballad of “Tam Lin”. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 26(2), pp. 74-83. (10.1353/chq.0.1604)
1998
- Butler, C. 1998. Timon’s tide. A Dolphin paperback. London: Orion Children's.
1997
- Butler, C. 1997. The Darkling. London: Orion Children's Books.
- Butler, C. 1997. The stagirite and the scarecrow: stanza 3 of Cowley’s ode “to the royal society” (1667). Restoration 21, pp. 1-14.
1996
- Butler, C. ed. 1996. Female replies to Swetnam the woman-hater. For Her Own Good: A Series of Conduct Books. Bristol: Thoemmes Press.
1995
- Butler, C. 1995. Introduction. In: Butler, C. ed. Female Replies to Swetnam the Woman-Hater.. For Her Own Good: A Series of Conduct Books Thoemmes Continuum, pp. v-xli.
1993
- Butler, C. 1993. Integrating computing into the history curriculum. History and Computing 5, pp. 199-203.
Articles
- Butler, C. 2021. Lost futures: reading, memory and repression. International Research in Children's Literature 14(2), pp. 156-168. (10.3366/ircl.2021.0394)
- Butler, C. 2020. Children's literature research in a world of Coronavirus. Japan Society for Children's Literature in English Newsletter 2020(Autumn), pp. 8-13.
- Butler, C. 2020. Japan reads the Cotswolds: Tourism, children’s literature and the Japanese imagination. Children's Literature 48, pp. 198-233. (10.1353/chl.2020.0008)
- Butler, C. 2020. Portraying trans people in children’s and young adult literature: problems and challenges. Journal of Literary Education 3, pp. 10-24. (10.7203/JLE.3.15992)
- Butler, C. 2019. Shoujo versus Seinen? Address and reception in Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011). Children's Literature in Education 50, pp. 400-416. (10.1007/s10583-018-9355-9)
- Butler, C. 2019. Arrietty comes home: Studio Ghibli's The Borrower Arrietty and its English-language dubs. Annals of The Institute for Comparative Studies of Culture 80, pp. 57-71.
- Butler, C. 2015. Margaret Mahy: librarian of Babel. Lion and the Unicorn 39(2), pp. 129-145. (10.1353/uni.2015.0014)
- Butler, C. 2014. Enchanting places: readers and pilgrimage in the novels of Diana Wynne Jones. Strange Horizons 2014(27 Oct)
- Butler, C. 2014. Plato’s Orpheus [poem]. Strange Horizons 2014(6 Oct)
- Butler, C. 2014. Want to save the United Kingdom? Move the capital to Glasgow [Newspaper Article]. The Guardian 2014(19 Jn)
- Butler, C. 2014. Taking Children’s Literature seriously. The Author CXXV, pp. 126-127.
- Butler, C. 2013. Critiquing calypso: authorial and academic bias in the reading of a young adult novel. Children's Literature in Education 44(3), pp. 264-279. (10.1007/s10583-012-9189-9)
- Butler, C. 2013. La Fantasy pour la jeunesse dans les iles britanniques. La Revue des Livres Pour Enfants, pp. 104-109.
- Butler, C. 2009. Experimental girls: feminist and transgender discourses in Bill’s New Frock and Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl?. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 34(1), pp. 1-20. (10.1353/chq.0.1889)
- Butler, C. 2007. Holiday work: on writing for children and for the academy. Children’s Literature in Education 38(3), pp. 163-172. (10.1007/s10583-007-9042-8)
- Butler, C. 2001. Alan Garner’s Red Shift and the shifting ballad of “Tam Lin”. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 26(2), pp. 74-83. (10.1353/chq.0.1604)
- Butler, C. 1997. The stagirite and the scarecrow: stanza 3 of Cowley’s ode “to the royal society” (1667). Restoration 21, pp. 1-14.
- Butler, C. 1993. Integrating computing into the history curriculum. History and Computing 5, pp. 199-203.
Book sections
- Butler, C. 2021. The Green Knowe books - a patchwork of genres. In: Watson, V. et al. eds. Lucy Boston: An Artist in Everything She Did. Cambridge: Oldknow Books, pp. 37-52.
- Butler, C. 2020. The Cotswolds and children’s literature in Japanese fantasy: the case of Castle Combe. In: Seaton, P. and Yamamura, T. eds. Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom: Transnational Tourist Experiences. Channel View Publications
- Butler, C. 2017. Counterfactual historical fiction for children and young adults. In: Beauvais, C. and Nikolajeva, M. eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature. Edinburgh Companions to Literature Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 179-193.
- Butler, C. 2017. Children's literature: Ideologies of the past, present and future. In: Hanson, C. and Watkins, S. eds. The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-75., Vol. 9. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan
- Butler, C. 2015. Diana Wynne Jones and Bristol. In: Mulvey-Roberts, M. ed. Literary Bristol: Writers and the City. Bristol: Redcliffe Press, pp. 179-195.
- Butler, C. 2015. The "Grand Tour" as transformative experience in children's novels about the Roman invasion. In: Maurice, L. ed. The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature: Heroes and Eagles. Brill, pp. 259-279.
- Butler, C. 2013. Tolkien and worldbuilding. In: Hunt, P. ed. Tolkien and Children’s Fiction: A New Casebook. New Casebooks Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 106-120.
- Butler, C. 2013. Introduction. In: Butler, C. ed. Twisted Winter. Quicksilver A & C Black Childrens & Educational, pp. 7-10.
- Butler, C. 2013. A dog is for life. In: Butler, C. ed. Twisted Winter. Quicksilver A&C Black Childrens & Educational, pp. 103-119.
- Butler, C. 2012. Reflecting on Reflections. In: Jones, D. W. ed. Reflections: On the Magic of Writing. Oxford: David Fickling Books, pp. ix-xviii.
- Butler, C. 2012. A conversation with Diana Wynne Jones. In: Jones, D. W. ed. Reflections: On the Magic of Writing. Oxford: David Fickling Books, pp. 255-279.
- Butler, C. 2012. Modern children’s fantasy. In: James, E. and Mendlesohn, F. eds. The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature. Cambridge Companions to Literature Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 224-235.
- Butler, C. 2012. Introduction. In: Alston, A. and Butler, C. eds. Roald Dahl: A New Casebook. New Casebooks Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-13.
- Butler, C. 2011. Psychological approaches to children’s literature. In: Grenby, M. O. and Reynolds, K. eds. Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 171-177.
- Butler, C. 2011. Postmodernism. In: Grenby, M. O. and Reynolds, K. eds. Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 178-184.
- Butler, C. 2011. Film adaptation: the case of The Secret Garden. In: Grenby, M. O. and Reynolds, K. eds. Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-205.
- Butler, C. 2009. Children of the stones: prehistoric sites in British children’s fantasy, 1965-2005. In: Parker, J. ed. Written on Stone: The Cultural Reception of Prehistoric Monuments. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 143-154.
- Butler, C. 2008. After the Inklings. In: Wells, S. ed. The Ring Goes Ever on - Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference: v. 1&2: 50 Years of The Lord of the Rings., Vol. 1. Coventry: The Tolkien Society, pp. 238-242.
- Butler, C. 2006. Introduction. In: Butler, C. ed. Teaching Children’s Fiction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-15.
- Butler, C. 2005. “You are feeling very sleepy…”: hypnosis, enchantment and mind-control in children’s fiction. In: Moody, N. and Horrocks, C. eds. Children’s Fantasy Fiction: Debates for the Twenty-First Century. Liverpool John Moores University and the Association for Research in Popular Fictions, pp. 175-190.
- Butler, C. 2002. “Now here: where now?” Magic as reality and as metaphor in the work of Diana Wynne Jones. In: Rosenberg, T. et al. eds. Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom. Peter Lang, pp. 66-78.
- Butler, C. 2002. An Interview with Diana Wynne Jones. In: Rosenberg, T. et al. eds. Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom. Peter Lang, pp. 163-172.
- Butler, C. 1995. Introduction. In: Butler, C. ed. Female Replies to Swetnam the Woman-Hater.. For Her Own Good: A Series of Conduct Books Thoemmes Continuum, pp. v-xli.
Books
- Butler, C. 2023. British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses. [British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses]. Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature. London: Bloomsbury.
- Butler, C. 2018. Literary studies deconstructed: A polemic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-3-319-90475-7)
- Reynolds, K. and Butler, C. eds. 2014. Modern children’s literature: an introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Butler, C. and Halsdorf, T. eds. 2014. Philip Pullman. New Casebooks. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Butler, C. ed. 2013. Twisted winter. Quicksilver. A & C Black Childrens & Educational.
- Alston, A. and Butler, C. eds. 2012. Roald Dahl. New Casebooks. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
- Butler, C. and O'Donovan, H. 2012. Reading history in children's books. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- O’Donovan, H., Kincaid Speller, M. and Butler, C. 2010. Diana Wynne Jones. Special issue of Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. Vol. 21, No. 2. International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.
- Butler, C. 2009. Hand of blood. Gr8reads. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke.
- Butler, C. 2007. Kiss of death. Gr8reads. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke.
- Butler, C. 2006. The Lurkers. London: Usborne.
- Butler, C. 2006. Four British fantasists: place and culture in the children’s fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Susan Cooper, and Diana Wynne Jones. Lanham: Children's Literature Association and Scarecrow Press.
- Butler, C. ed. 2006. Teaching children's fiction. Teaching the new English. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Butler, C. 2006. Death of a ghost. London: HarperCollins Children's.
- Butler, C. 2004. The fetch of Mardy Watt. London: Collins Voyager.
- Butler, C. 2002. Calypso dreaming. London: Collins Voyager.
- Butler, C. 1998. Timon’s tide. A Dolphin paperback. London: Orion Children's.
- Butler, C. 1997. The Darkling. London: Orion Children's Books.
- Butler, C. ed. 1996. Female replies to Swetnam the woman-hater. For Her Own Good: A Series of Conduct Books. Bristol: Thoemmes Press.
Monographs
- Butler, C. 2009. The learning and teaching of children’s literature in Europe. Project Report. [Online]. Bristol: Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency. Available at: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/project_reports/documents/comenius/all/com_mp_503589_ltcl.pdf
Ymchwil
My research is centred on children’s literature, especially fantasy and historical fiction. Other research interests include:
- gender identity
- the relationship of the academy to creative authors and ‘lay’ readers
- fan fiction
I welcome informal queries from potential PhD students whose plans overlap with any of my listed interests.
Addysgu
My current teaching is primarily in children's literature, which I teach both from the point of view of academic criticism and as a branch of creative writing.
Bywgraffiad
I arrived at Cardiff University in 2015. Previously I taught for 25 years at the University of the West of England, Bristol, where I was Associate Professor in English Literature.
As well as my academic work, I have practised as a children's writer, and have had six novels published by HarperCollins, Orion and Usborne, as well as shorter works and collections.
Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau
- Mythopoeic Scholarship Award, 2009
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- Children's Literature Association
- Society of Authors
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
- Associate Professor, University of the West of England
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:
- Children's literature
- Fantasy literature
Goruchwyliaeth gyfredol
Eris Leigh
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