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.

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...

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

Symposium "English Literature and the Pacific" will be held on 21 January 2023 at Meiji University. Places are limited, so if you are...

Border Crossings: Meiji University-Edinburgh University Collaboration Symposium will be held on Sunday, 18 December 2023 at Meiji...

I will be participating a roundtable at the GAA (Gothic in Asia Association)'s inaugural event "Asian Folklore, Folk Horror and the...

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...

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

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

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

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

In light of the current COVID-19 situation, I have decided to postpone the Pacific Paratexts conference from November 2020 to November...

The website for "Pacific Paratexts" conference has been just launched.

I am hosting "Pacific Paratexts", an interdisciplinary symposium exploring paratexts in writing from and about the Pacific. Please check...

I will give a paper " [H]ope’s last gleam in man’s extremity”: Lord Byron’s notes for The Island, or Christian and His Comrades (1823) "...