I will be giving a paper "The Pacific as Paratext: William Ellis' Footnotes for Polynesian Researches (1829)" at BARS/NASSR 2022 on...

I will be giving a paper "Paratexts as Gothic Interruptions: Pacific Gothic in Anonymous’ The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman (1778)" at the...

Very pleased to announce that we, Meiji-Edinburgh Research Partnership Project team, just received two new funds (one research project...

I started serving as International Liaison Officer of Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA). I look forward to bring more...

As the 35th EARN public lecture (National Chengchi University, Tiawan), I will give a talk "Pacific Marginality: Annotation in Anglophone...

International Seminar "Translating British Romanticism in East Asia" (Online event) Fri, 29 April 2022 16:00 – 18:00 JST...

The inaugural workshop of the Edinburgh-Meiji Research Partnership, "Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and...

From Palgrave's Asia-Pacific and Literature in English Series where I serve as co-editor, a new volume Asian English: Histories, Texts,...

From Palgrave's Asia-Pacific and Literature in English Series where I serve as co-editor, a new volume Robinson Crusoe in Asia (edited by...

I will be giving a paper "Sites of Romantic Regeneration: Herman Melville’s Paratexts for Typee (1846)” at RSAA Conference 2021. RSAA...

Special Event: Special Lecture by Poet Mary Jean Chan. The Hong Kong Poet Mary Jean Chan will be giving a special talk at Meiji...

The Pleasure in/of the Text: About the Joys and Perversities of Reading edited by Fabien Arribert-Narce, Endo Fuhito and Kamila...

I will be giving a paper "The Margins as Bonds" at International Conference on Romanticism 2021. Event schedule and details are...

My review of Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong is out on Kyoto Journal's website....

Delighted to be participating in the BARS International Conference next month. I will be hosting a salon "Romantic Paratexts and...

We are very pleased to announce that Meiji University now funds our Meiji-Edinburgh's Intermediality research project. We are thankful to...

My review of The Lost Romantics: Forgotten Poets, Neglected Works and One-hit Wonders ed. by Norbert Lennartz is out on the latest issue...

Prof. Rumiko Oyama and my interview on the Intermediality Research Project between Japan and scotland (Meiji University and The...

I am very happy to share that Meiji University now has a research partnership in intermediality studies with the University of Edinburgh....

I just came to learn that my paper on Kurosawa's Kagemusha and Shakespeare is discussed on Akira Kurosawa's fan community. It is very...