I teach and research modern and contemporary literature, with a particular interest in travel, material culture, craft, and collaboration.I joined the School of English, Media and Creative Arts at the University of Galway in 2023. Before then, I studied and taught at the University of Toronto, Franklin University Switzerland, and Uppsala University in Sweden.

I work primarily in the fields of twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture, with special interest intransnational and transcultural aspects of modernism, material culture, and artistic practices of collaboration and craft.My first monograph,Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys, was published by Routledge in 2011, and explores thecomplex motivations for and figurations of modern travel, particularly in the context of colonial legacies. My second monograph(co-authored with Professor Melba Cuddy-Keane and Dr Adam Hammond) is entitledModernism: Keywords (Wiley Blackwell 2014). Shortlisted for the 2015 Modernist Studies Association annual book prize for edition, anthology, or collection,Modernism: Keywords tracesthe character and thought of the modern era through its most salient debates, spotlighting the words at the heart of modernism.I am now working on two book-length projects that expand my interest in travelling cultures. The first considers the popular cultureof empire exhibitions between the two world wars and its legacies. Discussing a range of writers, artists, and poets including, Vahni Capildeo, E. M. Forster, Claude McKay, Louis MacNiece, Andrea Levy, and Virginia Woolf, this project bringsto light a wealth of previously little-studied cultural ephemera and elucidates exhibition cultures influence on the production of modern and contemporary literature. The second projectturns to literary representations of migration through a focus on ephemera, such as postcards, diaries, craft objects, photographs and letters. I am investigating how ephemera (real and fictional) appear in modern and contemporary literature and influence aesthetic form in relation to three migratory moments: the interwar European refugee crisis (1918-1945), the post-war so-called Windrush generation of immigrants from the Caribbean to the United Kingdom (1945-1960) and the ongoing displacement of people from North Africa and the Middle East (2011 to present).My research has been published in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies (2020),Women: A Cultural Review (202321), The Open Library of the Humanities Journal (2020),Literature amp; History (2019), andJourneys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing (2015). With Dr Claire Battershill, I co-editeda special issue of Literature amp; History on the topic of Modernism and Collaboration (2019). Iam also co-editor (with Dr Alison Vogelaar and Dr Brack Hale) of an edited volume entitledDiscourses of Environmental Collapse: Imagining the End (Routledge 2018). I recently co-edited (with my colleague at Galway, Dr Emily Ridge ) a double special issue ofWomen: A Cultural Review on Discourses of Emotional Labour (2023).

Modernism, postcolonial and contemporary literature, material and print cultures.