Dorothy Butchard

I research and teach contemporary literature and digital cultures, with particular interest in creative responses to technological change in the twentieth and twenty-first century.

My research traces connections between contemporary literature and digital cultures. My first monograph, Digital Anxiety (currently in process), discusses the intersection of digital technologies and literary writing in the decades around the turn of the millennium, showing how poetry, fiction and digital works published during this time reconfigured the anxieties of earlier eras to grapple with the uncertainties of an emerging "digital age."

More broadly, my interests in twentieth and twenty-first century literature include: popular cultures, genres and new media; digital poetics and experimental writing; surveillance studies and the intersection of health and wellbeing with changing technologies and infrastructures.  

I am theme lead for Imagining Wellbeing in the Centre for Urban Wellbeing, co-director of UoB's Centre for Digital Cultures, and am working on Midlands Mosaics, a community project based around the Eduardo Paolozzi mosaics in Redditch, UK.