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.

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...

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...

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

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

I am organizing a special lecture by Dr. Sarah Olive of the University of York, "Reviewing Theatre: The Case of Hamlet" on May 21 at 1:30...

I am happy to announce that JSPS (Japan Society Promotion of Science) supports  my new research project "Pacific Paratexts in Anglophone...

E-book format of British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East...

I am pleased to announce Dr. Laurence Williams (Sophia University) and my new co-edited collection, British Romanticism in Asia: The...

I will give a talk "Romantic Marginality: Why Annotation Matters" on Tuesday, October 30 at 6:30 pm, as part of the Studium Generale of...

Education material on TES "British Gothic Monsters in East Asian Culture: Ideas to Kick-start Reading and Viewing" by Sarah Olive and me...

Very thrilled to announce of the new “Asia-Pacific and Literature in English” Series with Palgrave Macmillan, co-edited with Shun-liang...

Two of my book reviews are published in  The Byron Journal 46.1. Review of William Christie, The Two Romanticisms, and Other Essays:...

Thanks to the great speakers and participants, Gothic in Japan symposium went great at Nagoya University.  I am grateful that the...

A monster created by a scientist wreaks destruction.  A black cat exacts revenge for a forgotten murder.  A curse is cast on...

I am invited to give two special lectures "Why read annotation?" and "What can British cinema teach us about the country’s political and...