in English Literature at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, having finished her PhD at Durham University in 2012. She is completing a monograph on modernism, portability, and the material culture of travel. She has published articles in Kaleidoscope and Textual Practice and has another article forthcoming in Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing. Her next project will explore troubled representations of hospitality in late modernist writing and she is currently coediting (with Jeffrey Clapp) a collection of essays on security and hospitality in modern and contemporary literature. The Problem of the Woman’s Bag from the New Woman to Modernism