Very positive and incisive review by Prof. David Chandler of "British Romanticism in Asia" I co-edited with Laurence Williams back in...

My paper "Shadowing Shakespeare: Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha (1980) and William Shakespeare’s English History Plays (c. 1591–98)" is...

My paper '“The Garb of Fiction”: Edgar Allan Poe’s Notes for the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)' is published in...

Nerd Nite Tokyo: Draggers & Droppings (live on October 16) is available on YouTube. My talk "The Footnote: A Defense" starts at 3:43.

I will be giving a talk "The Footnote: A Defense" at Nerd Nite Tokyo: Daggers & Droppings on October 16 at 8 pm (JST). You can watch it...

I will be giving paper "The Intermedial Margins: Georg Forster’s notes for A Voyage Round the World (1775)" at the Intermedial Eighteenth...

My review of "Japan" by Jeff Kingston is now published in Kyoto Journal 98.

From Palgrave's Asia-Pacific and Literature in English Series where I serve as co-editor, a new volume Asian Children’s Literature and...

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...

My review of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri is published in Kyoto Journal No. 97.

My article "Footnotes in the Long Eighteenth Century: Recommended Secondary Reading" is published on Eighteenth-Century Paratext Research...

In light of the current COVID-19 situation, I have decided to postpone the Pacific Paratexts conference from November 2020 to November...

Apologies we have had to cancel Tokyo Humanities Cafe on March 13 due to the corona virus. We will reschedule soon. Sincere apologies for...

Running since 2017, we're now on our 12th event: Tokyo Humanities Cafe, this Friday March 13th, at our usual venue in Shimokitazawa. As...

The website for "Pacific Paratexts" conference has been just launched.

My piece on the fabulous Tokyo Poetry Journal "Rebel Poets Against the Machine: An interview with Tokyo Poetry Journal editors Jeffrey...

Thanks a lot to our presenters (Yuiko, Megan, Judith, and Toru) and to the over 50 people who came along. Please check out the photos of...

I am hosting "Pacific Paratexts", an interdisciplinary symposium exploring paratexts in writing from and about the Pacific. Please check...

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

We're excited to announce our 11th cafe, right at the beginning of a new decade - Thursday, January 9th, 2020, at our usual venue in...