I will be giving a paper "The Value of Public Humanities Event Organizations for Literary Studies: Tokyo Humanities Café” at Liberlit 12...

Tokyo Humanities Café 22 will take place on Friday 11th July 2025 19:30-21:25(ish) at Ryozan Park Lounge and feature a Tango violin duo...

Thanks to our wonderful speakers  Derek Attridge ,  Xinqi He , Mary A. Knighton and  Eric Margolis  for their fabulous talks on A. A....

“The humanities are what it means to be human”. Thanks to Japan Times for a wonderful article on Tokyo Humanities Café! Tokyo Humanities...

​ Our next cafe will take place on Friday, April 25th, 2025 (19:30 - 21:15) at Ryozan Park Lounge , near Sugamo Station on the JR...

I will give a paper "Packaging Japan: Paratexts for English Translations of Japanese Literature" at the World Literature and...

My new paper ' Footnotes to History: Marginalizing Polynesia in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Song of Rahéro” and “The Feast of Famine”...

Tokyo Humanities Café will celebrate our TWENTIETH EVENT on Friday 31st January 2025 19:30-21:25(ish) at Ryozan Park Lounge (2 minutes...

Thanks so much to our fantastic speakers at Tokyo Humanites Café last night – Anne-Gaëlle Saliot, Heidi Lee, Gabriel Richard and  Anna...

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Intermedia Symposium on Sunday December 15 at  Meiji University , in particular to our...

My paper, Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846), is now available open access . Thanks to Claire Knowles, Alexis Harley,...

Tokyo Humanities Café 19 will take place Monday 16 December 2024 19:30-21:25(ish) at Ryozan Park Lounge (2 minutes from Sugamo Station,...

The sixth Edinburgh-Meiji Intermedia Symposium takes place Sunday 15 December 2024 at Meiji University Surugadai Campus Academy Common...

Tokyo Humanities Cafe is featured on Asahi Shimbun (November 6, 2024). Online version is available on Asahi Shimbun Digital . The full...

Tokyo Humanities Café 18 will take place Monday 21 October 2024 19:30-21:25(ish) at Ryozan Park Lounge (2 minutes from Sugamo Station, 5...

Event: Pacific Intermediality Special Lecture and Symposium イベント: パシフィック・インターメディアリティ特別講演会＆シンポジウム Event description: This event will...

On August 16, I will be giving a paper "Transforming Romantic-period British Orientalism: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Construction of...

Next Tokyo Humanities Café is on Friday 26 July (19:30 - 21:30). This free event takes place at Ryozan Park Lounge, 2 minutes' walk from...

I am very pleased to announce this exciting new monograph series “Edinburgh Critical Studies in World Literature and Intermediality”,...

I will be attending the Liberlit Conference on June 15 (Seikei University). I will be speaking about digital platforms for international...