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Jan 121 min read
Footnotes to History (new book chapter)
My new paper ' Footnotes to History: Marginalizing Polynesia in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Song of Rahéro” and “The Feast of Famine”...


Nov 21, 20241 min read
Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846)
My paper, Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846), is now available open access . Thanks to Claire Knowles, Alexis Harley,...


Jul 2, 20241 min read
Edinburgh Critical Studies in World Literature and Intermediality
I am very pleased to announce this exciting new monograph series “Edinburgh Critical Studies in World Literature and Intermediality”,...


Feb 29, 20241 min read
Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846)
My new article 'Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846)' is published in the latest European Romantic Review.


Dec 19, 20231 min read
Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and Beyond Roland Barthes
New collection edited by Dr. Fabien Arribert-Narce and myself, Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and Beyond...


Oct 12, 20231 min read
New volume from Asia-Pacific and Literature in English series
The Chinese May Fourth Generation and the Irish Literary Revival: Writers and Fighters by Simone O’Malley-Sutton will be released from...


Sep 28, 20231 min read
The Faith of the Faithless: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Notes for Queen Mab (1813)
My new paper "The Faith of the Faithless: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Notes for Queen Mab (1813)" will be published in Evy Varsamapoulou (ed.)...


Sep 20, 20231 min read
Developing students’ intercultural communication through digital collaborative seminars
My new paper "Developing students’ intercultural communication through digital collaborative seminars linking Japan and Australia" is...


Jul 1, 20221 min read
Two new funds for Meiji-Edinburgh Research Partnership Project (Crossing Borders and new MA course)
Very pleased to announce that we, Meiji-Edinburgh Research Partnership Project team, just received two new funds (one research project...


Feb 15, 20221 min read
Asian English
From Palgrave's Asia-Pacific and Literature in English Series where I serve as co-editor, a new volume Asian English: Histories, Texts,...


Dec 21, 20211 min read
Robinson Crusoe in Asia
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...


Oct 6, 20211 min read
The Perverse Footnote
The Pleasure in/of the Text: About the Joys and Perversities of Reading edited by Fabien Arribert-Narce, Endo Fuhito and Kamila...


Sep 6, 20211 min read
Review of Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now
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....


Jul 16, 20211 min read
BARS International Conference 2021
Delighted to be participating in the BARS International Conference next month. I will be hosting a salon "Romantic Paratexts and...


Jul 11, 20211 min read
JPY 1 M grant awarded for the Meiji & Edinburgh Intermediality Project
We are very pleased to announce that Meiji University now funds our Meiji-Edinburgh's Intermediality research project. We are thankful to...


Jun 17, 20211 min read
Review of The Lost Romantics: Forgotten Poets, Neglected Works and One-hit Wonders
My review of The Lost Romantics: Forgotten Poets, Neglected Works and One-hit Wonders ed. by Norbert Lennartz is out on the latest issue...

May 18, 20211 min read
Prof. Rumiko Oyama and my interview on the Meiji-Edinburgh Intermediality Research Project
Prof. Rumiko Oyama and my interview on the Intermediality Research Project between Japan and scotland (Meiji University and The...

May 8, 20211 min read
Meiji University's Research Partnership in Intermediality Studies with the University of Edinburgh
I am very happy to share that Meiji University now has a research partnership in intermediality studies with the University of Edinburgh....


May 5, 20211 min read
Shadowing Shakespeare paper discussed on Akira Kurosawa Info
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...


Apr 28, 20211 min read
Review of British Romanticism in Asia
Very positive and incisive review by Prof. David Chandler of "British Romanticism in Asia" I co-edited with Laurence Williams back in...
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