Alan Butterworth

Alan Butterworth was born in Dubai to a Chinese mother and British father who now lives in Macau. He grew up in Bahrain where he went to school and swam a lot until the first Gulf War. In order to avoid stray scud missiles, Alan moved to school in Kent, England and attended the University College London to get his BA in English. He then moved to Beijing to study Chinese for a year and teach English for another. Alan ended up in here after meeting his Minnesotan fiancée there.

Outside of journalism, Alan is generally interested in Shaolin kung fu, bass/acoustic guitar, piano, swimming, travel, astronomy, Chan philosophy, web design, writing a novel, and finishing his degree on time.

 

Current Research Interests:

Media discourse on miscegenation and the social construction of race

Comparative frames analysis of the debate over GM foods between the US and the UK

 

TA, RA, or Other UM Appointments:

1001: Introduction to Mass Communication

3741: People of color and the mass media

 

Professional Experience:

Worked for Minnesota Daily

Interned at NPR, Beijing bureau

Interned with That’s Beijing expat. magazine