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Dr Emma Short

Emma is a Teaching Fellow in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. Her research focuses primarily on literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and in particular on space, movement and embodiment in modernist, middlebrow and popular fiction, as well as on literatures of travel. She is currently completing a monograph on the hotel in British fiction from 1850-1939. which explores the way in which the hotel functions across the boundaries of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature, providing a reading of modernist, middlebrow, and popular fiction. Alongside this, she is also working on her next research project on British traveller Gertrude Bell's literary heritage and the making of the modern Middle East, which places her writings alongside the fiction and non-fiction she read prior to and during her travels.