Emily Ridge is a Lecturer Above the Bar at the National University of Ireland Galway, having previously taught at City University of Hong Kong and the Education University of Hong Kong. She works on modernist and post-war literature. Her first monograph, entitled Portable Modernisms: The Art of Travelling Light, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2017 and she is co-editor (with Jeffrey Clapp) of Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture: Modern and Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, 2016). Her further work has appeared in journals such as Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Modernism/Modernity and Textual Practice, and she is co-editor of a forthcoming special journal issue on the ‘Discourses of Emotional Labour’. Her current project focuses on emotion and its instrumentalisation, as conceived in twentieth-century women’s writing. Email: Emily.Ridge@UniversityOfGalway.ie