Butler, Alison - History

Personal Information
First Name: 
Alison
Nom: 
Butler
Affiliation universitaire: 
St. Francis Xavier University
Phone: 
9028673946
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Objet: 
Religion
Région géographique: 
Great Britain
Champ d'études: 
Victorian occultism; western esotericism
Academics
PHD Program: 
History
PHD University: 
University of Bristol
PHD Date: 
2004
Major Publications: 
Invoking Tradition: Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic (forthcoming 2009: Palgrave Macmillan) "Anna Kingsford: Scientist and Sorceress," in David Clifford, Elisabeth Wadge, Alex Warwick, Martin Willis (eds), Repositioning Victorian Sciences: Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-Century Science (London: Anthem Press, 2006), 59-69. "Making Magic Modern: Nineteenth-Century Adaptations," The Pomegranate: International Journal of Pagan Studies, 6.2 (Fall 2004), 212-230.
Membre des sociétés académiques: 
Societas Magica, Northeast Victorian Studies Association
Courses Taught: 
Victorian Britian, 20th-Century Britain, Global History