is a literary critic and fiction writer. She received her Ph.D. from Durham University, with a research interest in twentieth-century women’s writing and its dialogues with spatial theory and queer studies. She reads narratives of women’s lived experience and feminine modes of navigation in inhospitable worlds.

Her most recent publication is a reading of temporal tensions in Xiaolu Guo’s romance narratives (Feminist Encounters) and a collection of short stories, No Wonder, Women (Penguin Random House SEA).