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...

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

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...

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

In light of the current COVID-19 situation, I have decided to postpone the Pacific Paratexts conference from November 2020 to November...

The website for "Pacific Paratexts" conference has been just launched.

I am hosting "Pacific Paratexts", an interdisciplinary symposium exploring paratexts in writing from and about the Pacific. Please check...

Prof. Judith Pascoe's special talk "Wuthering Heights, World Literature, and Japanese Child Readers" went great earlier this week. ...

Prof. Judith Pascoe (Florida State university) will give special lecture "Wuthering Heights, World Literature, and Japanese Child...

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) "...

Prof. Ian Haywood's special talk "Frankenstein: The Illustrated 1818 Edition" went great at Meiji University. Thanks everyone for coming...

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

Pleased to announce that Prof. Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton) will give a special lecture "Frankenstein: The Illustrated 1818...

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...

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

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...

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