My new paper "The Faith of the Faithless: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Notes for Queen Mab (1813)" will be published in Evy Varsamapoulou (ed.)...

Roundtable "European Cultures/Pacific Histories: Asia-Pacific/Pacific Rim cultural relations, histories, and representations" will be...

My new paper "Developing students’ intercultural communication through digital collaborative seminars linking Japan and Australia" is...

JAER Annual Conference Symposium will be held on 7-8 October 2023. I will be giving a paper titled "The Pacific as Paratext: John...

Special Symposium: English Literature and the Pacific Date: 4 October (Wednesday), 2023, 15:20-17:00 Venue: Room 308E, 8th floor, Academy...

Many thanks to our four speakers - Catherine Harrington, Graham Law, Alex MacFarlane, and Hanabi Ryusuitei - at Tokyo Humanities Cafe 13...

Join us for our free summer event on Thursday, 24th August (19:30 - 21:15). Our new venue is Ryozan Park Lounge, 2 minutes' walk from...

We are very pleased to announce that a project of the Meiji-Edinburgh Research Partnership Project team, "Intermedial Intersections...

Tokyo Humanities Cafe 12 was held last night. Thanks so much to Ryozan Park for hosting us, to the large audience who turned out - and...

My friend, Dr. Willow Verkerk (University of British Columbia) will give a special lecture at Meiji University on 27 June. The lecture is...

I will be giving a paper "The Pacific as Paratext: John Williams’ A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands...

Tokyo Humanities Café is listed in Tokyo Weekender Magazine. Please come along June 9, 19:30-21:15, RYOZAN PARK Lounge, Sugamo, Tokyo....

Tokyo Humanities Cafe is back! We're excited to announce the return of our popular cafe series for the first time in three years! Please...

Meiji University and the University of Technology Sydney aim to enhance their partnership for internationalization. We just had a meeting...

A recording of BARS Digital event (21 April, 2023) is now available on Youtube. My talk on Ito Junji's Frankenstein starts at 49:19.

I am very excited to announce that my new research project "Pacific Intermediality, 1768-2022" is funded by JSPS's Kakenhi grant (JPY 4.5...

On Fri, 21 April 2023, 13:00 – 14:30 BST, I will be joining this online event as a speaker. Please check the details below. My paper is...

I will give a talk "Five reasons to watch Japanese TV" at the University of Technology Sydney on 20 March.

Intercultural Transfers and Translations Across Media, the third Workshop of the University of Edinburgh-Meiji University Research...

I will be traveling to Australia next month! On March 23 at 1:00 pm, I will be giving a paper at the Languages and Culture Seminar at La...