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Dr Rebecca Butler is a Lecturer in English, who teaches on modules across the long nineteenth century, as well as in her specialism, travel writing. Prior to this appointment, Dr Butler worked as a Research Assistant to the CTWS, supporting the Centre's research and its impact through collaborative partnerships, event platforms, and online presence. Dr Butler’s main research focus is on the intersections between gender, national identity, political advocacy and literary authority in early Victorian women’s travel writing on Italy. In 2016, she completed her PhD thesis, "Resurgence and Insurgence: British Women Travel Writers and the Italian Risorgimento, 1844-1858", at the School of English Literature at Bangor Unversity. Her chapter, "Martyrdom or Militancy? Florence Nightingale's Pi[o]us Pilgrimage, Rome (1847-1848)", which forms part of this research, was published in Women Breaking Boundaries: Victorian Women Travellers, ed. by Precious McKenzie (Cambridge Scholars, 2016). She is currently co-editing the Yearbook of English Studies (2018) on "Writing in The Reign of King William IV (r. 1830-1837)", with Dr Maureen McCue and Dr Anne-Marie Millim, to which she is contributing a chapter on the evolution of the guidebook: "'Can any one fancy travellers without Murray’s universal red books'? Mariana Starke, John Murray, and 1830s’ Guidebook Culture".
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