I am going to give a paper on Edgar Allan Poe's paratexts at this international conference at Seikei University on July 13. Programme is...

We're excited to announce details of our ninth "Tokyo Humanities Cafe"! It will be on Friday June 21st at 7.30pm, at our usual venue...

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...

Liberlit Conference is coming up this Saturday, June 1. I am participating a panel entitled "Teaching the long 18th Century" at 2:40 pm....

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

I am organizing a special lecture by Dr. Sarah Olive of the University of York, "Reviewing Theatre: The Case of Hamlet" on May 21 at 1:30...

I am happy to announce that JSPS (Japan Society Promotion of Science) supports  my new research project "Pacific Paratexts in Anglophone...

Thanks a lot to everyone who came to Tokyo Humanities Cafe last night. We had the largest crowd ever last night! Please see here for some...

My recent interview on Tokyo Humanities Cafe by Dr. Ayumi Koso of the National Institutes for the Humanities. The link provides entire...

We're excited to announce details of our spring "Tokyo Humanities Cafe"! It will be on Thursday, April 18 at 7.30pm, at our usual venue...

E-book format of British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East...

My new review of "Tokyo Romance" by Ian Buruma is published in Kyoto Journal No. 93.

I am pleased to announce Dr. Laurence Williams (Sophia University) and my new co-edited collection, British Romanticism in Asia: The...

We're excited to announce details of our Christmas "Tokyo Humanities Cafe"! It will be on Thursday, December 20th at 7.30pm, at our usual...

Thanks all for coming to THC7 last night. We are happy that it was a full-house despite the busy pre-holiday/bonenkai week. Q&A sessions...

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...

My new article "Have Something to Say: Masahiko Abe on the University of Tokyo’s rejection of the Japanese Education Ministry’s English...

Thanks everyone who came out to THC 6 last night. We had a full house with 50+ people in the audience. Big shout out to the speakers too!...

My review of "Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee, originally published in Kyoto Journal No. 89 (January 2018), has been reproduced on their...

Mark your calendars for our 6th humanities cafe - a great line-up of speakers, with talks on Kazuo Ishiguro, Aokigahara forest, poetry...