Thanks to everyone who attended Global Barthes on May 18. As organizer, I am incredibly delighted by the high quality of all of the...

Join us for our free event on Thursday, 16 May (19:30 - 21:30). Our new venue is Ryozan Park Lounge, 2 minutes' walk from Sugamo Station...

We have added two speakers, Clark Lunberry (University of North Florida) and Yue Zhuo (Shanghai University) to the Special Symposium...

Really looking forward to this special symposium putting Roland Barthes in a Global Context at Room 4021, 2nd floor, Global Front,...

The University of Edinburgh and Meiji University's joint workshop "Theories and Practices of Intermediality Today" will be held on March...

My new article 'Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846)' is published in the latest European Romantic Review.

I am on K-SAA's new podcast, Global Mapping of Romanticism, with Yu-Hung Tien to share my professional experience studying and teaching...

Our report on “Masks and Screens”, the Meiji University-Edinburgh University Collaboration Symposium held on December 17, 2023 is...

Join us for our free* event on Friday, 19 January (19:30 - 21:15). Our new venue is Ryozan Park Lounge, 2 minutes' walk from Sugamo...

New collection edited by Dr. Fabien Arribert-Narce and myself, Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and Beyond...

Second meeting for Meiji University and UTS partnership meeting was held on 27 November. シドニー工科大学（オーストラリア）と国際化のための定期協議（第2回）を実施しました Meiji...

“Masks and Screens”: Meiji University-Edinburgh University Collaboration Symposium will be held at Meiji University on December 17....

I will give a paper ‘Renewing the Text: Editorial Paratexts for Lord Byron’s The Island (1823)’ at RSAA Conference 2023 on 6-8 December.

I will be giving a paper titled "Inverting Race: Enlightenment and Romanticism in George Forster’s Construction of the Human in A Voyage...

The Chinese May Fourth Generation and the Irish Literary Revival: Writers and Fighters by Simone O’Malley-Sutton will be released from...

Join us for our free* Halloween event on Thursday, 26 October (19:30 - 21:15). Our new venue is Ryozan Park Lounge, 2 minutes' walk from...

My new paper "The Faith of the Faithless: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Notes for Queen Mab (1813)" will be published in Evy Varsamapoulou (ed.)...

Roundtable "European Cultures/Pacific Histories: Asia-Pacific/Pacific Rim cultural relations, histories, and representations" will be...

My new paper "Developing students’ intercultural communication through digital collaborative seminars linking Japan and Australia" is...

JAER Annual Conference Symposium will be held on 7-8 October 2023. I will be giving a paper titled "The Pacific as Paratext: John...