Alex is Professor at the School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University. 
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Originally from the UK.  After receiving a D.Phil. in English from the University of York in 2007 and working for the University of Edinburgh and several other institutions, he arrived in Japan in 2011. 
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Alex's research interests include British Romanticism, paratexts, Asian adaptations/translations, intermediality, and public humanities. His major publications include Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and Beyond Roland Barthes (2023) co-editedwith Fabien Arribert-Narce, British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia (2019) co-edited with Laurence Williams, and Romantic Marginality: Nation and Empire on the Borders of the Page (2012).  He also serves as a series co-editor for Palgrave's Asia-Pacific and Literature in English Series (2019-). 
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Alex's current research projects include 19th-century Anglophone literature in Asia-Pacific region and the intermedial character of British representations of the Pacific (both funded by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science).   
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Starting in 2022, Alex serves as International Liaison Officer of Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA). He looks forward to bringing more international collaboration in and outside the Association. 
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Alongside his academic activities, Alex plays active roles in several outreach projects including Tokyo Humanities Cafe (Facebook/ Instagram/ Bluesky).  He hopes to use his expertise to make the Humanities research more visible to a wider audience. 
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(Photo by Laura Cooper)