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 (1811...

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

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

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 th...

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

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

Amanda Alvarez (RIKEN) and I will be doing a panel "Be There: Events that Bring Words to Life" at Japan Writers Conference on Sunday, Oc...

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...

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

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 N...

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

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