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Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age
From Palgrave's Asia-Pacific and Literature in English Series where I serve as co-editor, a new volume Asian Children’s Literature and...
May 22, 20201 min read


The Pacific in the Margins (invited talk)
On April 24, I gave a Zoom talk "The Pacific in the Margins: Mary Russell Mitford’s notes for Christina, the maid of the South Seas...
May 4, 20201 min read


Footnotes in the Long Eighteenth Century: Recommended Secondary Reading
My article "Footnotes in the Long Eighteenth Century: Recommended Secondary Reading" is published on Eighteenth-Century Paratext Research...
Apr 18, 20201 min read


Postponement of Pacific Paratexts Conference
In light of the current COVID-19 situation, I have decided to postpone the Pacific Paratexts conference from November 2020 to November...
Apr 8, 20201 min read


Pacific Paratexts website launched
The website for "Pacific Paratexts" conference has been just launched.
Feb 11, 20201 min read


CFP: Pacific Paratexts (proposal deadline 1 May 2020)
I am hosting "Pacific Paratexts", an interdisciplinary symposium exploring paratexts in writing from and about the Pacific. Please check...
Dec 24, 20191 min read


"Wuthering Heights, World Literature, and Japanese Child Readers" by Prof. Judith Pascoe
Prof. Judith Pascoe's special talk "Wuthering Heights, World Literature, and Japanese Child Readers" went great earlier this week. ...
Dec 14, 20191 min read


Special lecture by Prof. Judith Pascoe
Prof. Judith Pascoe (Florida State university) will give special lecture "Wuthering Heights, World Literature, and Japanese Child...
Nov 14, 20191 min read


Embodying Romanticism (RSAA 2019)
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) "...
Oct 21, 20191 min read


"Frankenstein: The Illustrated 1818 Edition" by Prof. Ian Haywood
Prof. Ian Haywood's special talk "Frankenstein: The Illustrated 1818 Edition" went great at Meiji University. Thanks everyone for coming...
Oct 17, 20191 min read


Hamlet in Original Pronunciation
Thank you all for coming to Hamlet in Original Pronunciation yesterday! We are so happy that a big audience showed up. Ben Crystal and...
Sep 30, 20191 min read


Frankenstein: The Illustrated 1818 Edition (by Ian Haywood)
Pleased to announce that Prof. Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton) will give a special lecture "Frankenstein: The Illustrated 1818...
Sep 21, 20191 min read


JAER 45th Annual Conference
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...
Sep 16, 20191 min read


Hamlet in Original Pronunciation by Ben Crystal
My department of Meiji University is hosting "Hamlet in Original Pronunciation", the lecture and performance by Ben Crystal on Sunday,...
Sep 10, 20191 min read


The Pacific in the Margins (ICR Manchester)
I am going to give paper "The Pacific in the Margins: Mary Russell Mitford’s Notes for Christina, Maid of the South Seas (1811)" at the...
Jul 4, 20191 min read


Book Review: British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason by Timothy Michael
My review of British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason by Timothy Michael is out in the latest issue of The Byron Journal.
Jun 19, 20191 min read


The Aesthetic Mechanisms of Ocean Representations In British, American and Asian Contexts
I am going to give a paper on Edgar Allan Poe's paratexts at this international conference at Seikei University on July 13. Programme is...
Jun 17, 20191 min read


Book Launch: British Romanticism in Asia
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...
Jun 5, 20191 min read


Liberlit 2019
Liberlit Conference is coming up this Saturday, June 1. I am participating a panel entitled "Teaching the long 18th Century" at 2:40 pm....
May 30, 20191 min read


Reviewing Theatre: The Case of Hamlet
Thank you all for coming to Dr. Sarah Olive's talk "Reviewing Theatre: The Case of Hamlet" yesterday. Many people showed up in the...
May 22, 20191 min read
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