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...

"Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry" edited by Michael Edson (University of Wyoming) is now released (Publisher | Amazon Japan |...