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

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

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

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

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...

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

Thanks to everyone who attended Global Barthes on May 18. As organizer, I am incredibly delighted by the high quality of all of the...

We have added two speakers, Clark Lunberry (University of North Florida) and Yue Zhuo (Shanghai University) to the Special Symposium...

Really looking forward to this special symposium putting Roland Barthes in a Global Context at Room 4021, 2nd floor, Global Front,...

The University of Edinburgh and Meiji University's joint workshop "Theories and Practices of Intermediality Today" will be held on March...

Our report on “Masks and Screens”, the Meiji University-Edinburgh University Collaboration Symposium held on December 17, 2023 is...

“Masks and Screens”: Meiji University-Edinburgh University Collaboration Symposium will be held at Meiji University on December 17....

I will give a paper ‘Renewing the Text: Editorial Paratexts for Lord Byron’s The Island (1823)’ at RSAA Conference 2023 on 6-8 December.

I will be giving a paper titled "Inverting Race: Enlightenment and Romanticism in George Forster’s Construction of the Human in A Voyage...

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

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...

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

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.