Alice Butler

Dr. Alice Butler serves as the 2021/2022 Centre for American Art Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art, where she operates as an interdisciplinary scholar and art writer specializing in feminist art and writing through intersectional feminist and queer perspectives. Her work critically examines intersections of sickness, sexuality, and gender via experimental archive and autotheory methodologies.

Butler develops feminist, affective practice-based research grounded in creative writing experiments to engage 'with' artists and artworks, rather than merely studying them. Her current project centers on correspondence in feminist contexts, exemplified by the events series 'What a hazard a letter is,' which investigates letters as both physical artifacts and methodological frameworks. She is concurrently advancing book projects on Kathy Acker/Cookie Mueller's epistolary art, feminist gesture practices, and textiles/sickness/perversion dynamics in feminist art.

Her scholarly contributions intersect feminist theory with material practices, emphasizing affective and embodied research approaches. Recent publications analyze literary triangles, fan cultures, and textile metaphors within feminist frameworks, demonstrating consistent engagement with marginalized voices and experimental forms.

Dr. Butler has been awarded significant research fellowships:

• Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Paul Mellon Centre Fellowship
• Freud Museum London Fellowship
• AHRC Fellowship

As both a theorist and practicing art critic, she bridges academic scholarship with contemporary art discourse through writing that challenges conventional boundaries between criticism and creative practice.