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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.
I joined Birmingham in 2016. Before this, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities (IASH), after completing my doctoral thesis and masters at the University of Edinburgh.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Doctor of Philosophy, Electric Amateurs: Literary Encounters with Computing Technologies, 1987-2001, University of Edinburgh
Award Date: 30 Jun 2015
Master of Arts, Literature and Transatlanticism, University of Edinburgh
Award Date: 30 Jun 2010
Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, University of Cambridge
Award Date: 30 Jun 2008
University of Edinburgh
1 Jan 2016 → 30 Jun 2016
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Butchard, D. (Principal Investigator)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/04/23 → 30/04/24
Project: Research Councils
Butchard, D. (Organiser) & Gallen, N. (Organiser)
Activity: Engagement and Public events › Engagement event
Butchard, D. (Organiser)
Activity: Engagement and Public events › Engagement event
Butchard, D. (Organiser) & Gallen, N. (Organiser)
Activity: Engagement and Public events › Engagement event
Butchard, D. (Organiser) & Gallen, N. (Organiser)
Activity: Engagement and Public events › Engagement event
Holmes, J. (Organiser), Kassem, N. (Member of Programme Committee) & Butchard, D. (Member of Programme Committee)
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium