We are very pleased to announce that a project of the Meiji-Edinburgh Research Partnership Project team, "Intermedial Intersections...

Tokyo Humanities Cafe 12 was held last night. Thanks so much to Ryozan Park for hosting us, to the large audience who turned out - and...

My friend, Dr. Willow Verkerk (University of British Columbia) will give a special lecture at Meiji University on 27 June. The lecture is...

I will be giving a paper "The Pacific as Paratext: John Williams’ A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands...

Tokyo Humanities Café is listed in Tokyo Weekender Magazine. Please come along June 9, 19:30-21:15, RYOZAN PARK Lounge, Sugamo, Tokyo....

Tokyo Humanities Cafe is back! We're excited to announce the return of our popular cafe series for the first time in three years! Please...

Meiji University and the University of Technology Sydney aim to enhance their partnership for internationalization. We just had a meeting...

A recording of BARS Digital event (21 April, 2023) is now available on Youtube. My talk on Ito Junji's Frankenstein starts at 49:19.

I am very excited to announce that my new research project "Pacific Intermediality, 1768-2022" is funded by JSPS's Kakenhi grant (JPY 4.5...

On Fri, 21 April 2023, 13:00 – 14:30 BST, I will be joining this online event as a speaker. Please check the details below. My paper is...

I will give a talk "Five reasons to watch Japanese TV" at the University of Technology Sydney on 20 March.

Intercultural Transfers and Translations Across Media, the third Workshop of the University of Edinburgh-Meiji University Research...

I will be traveling to Australia next month! On March 23 at 1:00 pm, I will be giving a paper at the Languages and Culture Seminar at La...

Symposium "English Literature and the Pacific" will be held on 21 January 2023 at Meiji University. Places are limited, so if you are...

Border Crossings: Meiji University-Edinburgh University Collaboration Symposium will be held on Sunday, 18 December 2023 at Meiji...

On Fri, 21 April 2023, 13:00 – 14:30 BST (already talking about next year!), I will be joining this online event as a speaker. Please...

I will be participating a roundtable at the GAA (Gothic in Asia Association)'s inaugural event "Asian Folklore, Folk Horror and the...

I will be giving a paper "The Pacific as Paratext: William Ellis' Footnotes for Polynesian Researches (1829)" at BARS/NASSR 2022 on...

I will be giving a paper "Paratexts as Gothic Interruptions: Pacific Gothic in Anonymous’ The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman (1778)" at the...

Very pleased to announce that we, Meiji-Edinburgh Research Partnership Project team, just received two new funds (one research project...