My review of "Japan" by Jeff Kingston is now published in Kyoto Journal 98.

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

My review of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri is published in Kyoto Journal No. 97.

My article "Footnotes in the Long Eighteenth Century: Recommended Secondary Reading" is published on Eighteenth-Century Paratext Research...

My piece on the fabulous Tokyo Poetry Journal "Rebel Poets Against the Machine: An interview with Tokyo Poetry Journal editors Jeffrey Jo...

My interview with embroidery artist Alison Carpenter-Hughes is out.

My review of On the Bullet Train With Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan by Judith Pascoe is out on the latest issue of Kyoto Journal.

My review of British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason by Timothy Michael is out in the latest issue of The Byron Journal.

Thanks to Prof. Steve Clark at University of Tokyo, Laurence and I will be giving this book launch talk on British Romanticism in Asia on...

E-book format of British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asi...

My new review of "Tokyo Romance" by Ian Buruma is published in Kyoto Journal No. 93.

I am pleased to announce Dr. Laurence Williams (Sophia University) and my new co-edited collection, British Romanticism in Asia: The Rece...

My new article "Have Something to Say: Masahiko Abe on the University of Tokyo’s rejection of the Japanese Education Ministry’s English E...

My review of "Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee, originally published in Kyoto Journal No. 89 (January 2018), has been reproduced on their officia...

Education material on TES "British Gothic Monsters in East Asian Culture: Ideas to Kick-start Reading and Viewing" by Sarah Olive and me ...

Very thrilled to announce of the new “Asia-Pacific and Literature in English” Series with Palgrave Macmillan, co-edited with Shun-liang C...

My new book review of "Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone" by Richard Lloyd Parry is published in Kyoto Journ...

My new article 'The Hungry Fox: An interview with BJ Fox, star of Japanese television sitcom "Home Sweet Tokyo"' is just published on Wal...

Two of my book reviews are published in  The Byron Journal 46.1. Review of William Christie, The Two Romanticisms, and Other Essays: Myst...

My new article "Faking it for real: My Shinto wedding" is out on Wall Street International.