Her research focus is on early 20th-century British literature, with a special interest in: modernism and empire; gender and sexuality studies; cultural studies. She is the author of Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary (Manchester University Press, 2003); the editor of a special issue on “Queer Space,” ELN: English Language Notes (Spring 2007); and the co-editor, with Laura Doan, of Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and National Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). She is currently at work on a book titled Material Modernism: Fashioning Bloomsbury. Her talk considers the effect of primitivism on avante garde fashions produced by Vanessa Bell’s Omega Workshop.