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) "...

The Japan Association of English Romanticism's 45th Annual Conference will be held at Otsuma Women's University on Oct 19 to 20. I will...

Amanda Alvarez (RIKEN) and I will be doing a panel "Be There: Events that Bring Words to Life" at Japan Writers Conference on Sunday,...