My review of Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong is out on Kyoto Journal's website....

Delighted to be participating in the BARS International Conference next month. I will be hosting a salon "Romantic Paratexts and...

We are very pleased to announce that Meiji University now funds our Meiji-Edinburgh's Intermediality research project. We are thankful to...

My review of The Lost Romantics: Forgotten Poets, Neglected Works and One-hit Wonders ed. by Norbert Lennartz is out on the latest issue...

Prof. Rumiko Oyama and my interview on the Intermediality Research Project between Japan and scotland (Meiji University and The...

I am very happy to share that Meiji University now has a research partnership in intermediality studies with the University of Edinburgh....

I just came to learn that my paper on Kurosawa's Kagemusha and Shakespeare is discussed on Akira Kurosawa's fan community. It is very...

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...