I will give a paper ‘Renewing the Text: Editorial Paratexts for Lord Byron’s The Island (1823)’ at RSAA Conference 2023 on 6-8 December.

I will be giving a paper titled "Inverting Race: Enlightenment and Romanticism in George Forster’s Construction of the Human in A Voyage...

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.)...

Roundtable "European Cultures/Pacific Histories: Asia-Pacific/Pacific Rim cultural relations, histories, and representations" will be...

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

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...

We are very pleased to announce that a project of the Meiji-Edinburgh Research Partnership Project team, "Intermedial Intersections...

My friend, Dr. Willow Verkerk (University of British Columbia) will give a special lecture at Meiji University on 27 June. The lecture is...

I will be giving a paper "The Pacific as Paratext: John Williams’ A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands...

Meiji University and the University of Technology Sydney aim to enhance their partnership for internationalization. We just had a meeting...

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.

I am very excited to announce that my new research project "Pacific Intermediality, 1768-2022" is funded by JSPS's Kakenhi grant (JPY 4.5...

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...

I will be traveling to Australia next month! On March 23 at 1:00 pm, I will be giving a paper at the Languages and Culture Seminar at La...

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...

On Fri, 21 April 2023, 13:00 – 14:30 BST (already talking about next year!), I will be joining this online event as a speaker. Please...