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Alice Butler is a Tutor (Research) in the School of Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art. She specializes in queer-feminist art writing, queer and feminist theory, and experimental approaches to archives. Her research explores intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and sickness in contemporary art and literature, with a focus on figures like Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller.
Education: PhD from University of Manchester (2019), MA in Critical Writing in Art & Design from RCA (2013), First Class Honours in English Literature and Art History from Sussex (2011).
Research Interests: Embodied scenes, autotheory, feminist methodologies, textile studies, critical medical humanities, and health care practices. She co-leads the Health & Care Research Cluster at RCA and has held fellowships at The Courtauld Institute and Paul Mellon Centre.
Awards: Includes University of Manchester’s Distinguished Achievement Award (2018), AHRC Doctoral Funding, and RCA’s Critical Writing Prize (2013).
Teaching: Leads units on “Writing Images/Images Writing” and “Health and Care: Poetics of Care” across Photography and MFA programs. Supervises PhD students in practice-theory intersections. Committed to experimental pedagogy bridging arts and humanities.
Key Projects: Upcoming monograph Close Writing (Duke UP 2025), co-edited Gestures: A Body of Work (Manchester UP 2025), and Nylon Stockings and Stolen Things in development. Collaborative projects include Sick Women: correspondences and performances with Gemma Blackshaw.
