Emma Short

Dr. Emma Short serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, a position she has held since 2018 after previously working as a Teaching Fellow at Newcastle University. For the 2024/25 academic year, she teaches Literature of the Modern Period (ENGL2081), Hotel Stories (ENGL2821), and Post-War Fiction & Poetry (ENGL3591), convening the first two modules while supervising undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in modern literature, gender and feminist theory, women's writing, travel writing, ecocriticism, and theories of embodiment and space.

Her research spans late nineteenth-century to contemporary literature with concentrated focus on intersections of space, mobility, embodiment, and gender. Her 2019 monograph Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature: Passing Through analyzes the hotel as a site expressing modernity in works by Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and Elizabeth Bowen. Current projects examine British traveler Gertrude Bell's impact on British understandings of the Middle East and develop ecocritical approaches to literature and landscape.

Publications from 2012-2023 reveal sustained scholarly engagement with spatial and mobility studies across modern and contemporary literature, featuring analyses of James Joyce's Ulysses, Elizabeth Bowen and Katherine Mansfield's writings, and Gertrude Bell's travel narratives. Recurring themes include gendered spatial experiences, embodiment, and cultural history of space, consistently employing interdisciplinary frameworks from feminist theory, spatial theory, and ecocriticism while bridging modernist, middlebrow, and popular fiction traditions.

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Dr. Short currently supervises PhD students Karen Dellinger and Peiyu Tian, actively welcoming new PhD applicants in her research areas. No research grants or funding sources were referenced in the available information.