Dorothy Butchard

Dr. Dorothy Butchard is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Digital Cultures at the University of Birmingham's Department of English Literature since 2016. Her research explores intersections between literature, digital cultures, and technological change, focusing on themes like digital wellbeing, surveillance studies, environmental change, and health impacts of emerging technologies. She holds a BA from the University of Cambridge, an MSc from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD from Edinburgh as well.

• Education: BA English Literature (Cambridge), MSc Literature and Transatlanticism (Edinburgh), PhD English Literature (Edinburgh)

Her work analyzes how literature and pop culture reflect digital platform impacts on communities and environments. She co-directs the Centre for Digital Cultures and leads the 'Imagining Wellbeing' theme at the Centre for Urban Wellbeing. Recent projects include the Midlands Mosaics community initiative and her monograph Digital Anxiety (in progress).

Publications span articles on surveillance poetics, transatlantic communications in fiction, and peer review innovations. She has organized events like the 'Atlantic Exchanges' workshop and conferences on information overload aesthetics.

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She co-convenes the Postgraduate Doctoral Seminar in English Literature and contributes to modules like Textualities and Materialities. Her research has been presented internationally, including talks at the Secret Poetry event and Edinburgh's IASH institute.