My new article 'Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846)' is published in the latest European Romantic Review.

New collection edited by Dr. Fabien Arribert-Narce and myself, Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and Beyond...

The Chinese May Fourth Generation and the Irish Literary Revival: Writers and Fighters by Simone O’Malley-Sutton will be released from...

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

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

Very pleased to announce that we, Meiji-Edinburgh Research Partnership Project team, just received two new funds (one research project...

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

From Palgrave's Asia-Pacific and Literature in English Series where I serve as co-editor, a new volume Robinson Crusoe in Asia (edited by...

The Pleasure in/of the Text: About the Joys and Perversities of Reading edited by Fabien Arribert-Narce, Endo Fuhito and Kamila...

My review of Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong is out on Kyoto Journal's website....

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

We are very pleased to announce that Meiji University now funds our Meiji-Edinburgh's Intermediality research project. We are thankful to...

My review of The Lost Romantics: Forgotten Poets, Neglected Works and One-hit Wonders ed. by Norbert Lennartz is out on the latest issue...

Prof. Rumiko Oyama and my interview on the Intermediality Research Project between Japan and scotland (Meiji University and The...

I am very happy to share that Meiji University now has a research partnership in intermediality studies with the University of Edinburgh....

I just came to learn that my paper on Kurosawa's Kagemusha and Shakespeare is discussed on Akira Kurosawa's fan community. It is very...

Very positive and incisive review by Prof. David Chandler of "British Romanticism in Asia" I co-edited with Laurence Williams back in...

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...

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