PUBLICATIONS
INTERMEDIAL ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN IMAGE, MUSIC AND TEXT
2023
The essays in Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and Beyond Roland Barthes reconsider Roland Barthes as a crucial figure in intermedia studies, arguing that the concepts and forms of analysis he pioneered are of continuing importance for students and scholars working in the field. These essays utilize an interdisciplinary methodology, drawing on Barthes’s own intermedial critical practice, to examine the multiple relationships between art, literature, music and performance and across different languages. The collection places Barthes’s writing in critical dialogue with other theorists, including Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Dick Higgins and Emmanuel Levinas, investigating the work of figures as varied as André Breton, Giordano Bruno, Alain Cavalier, Alfred Hitchcock, Marcel Schwob, W. G. Sebald, Steven Spielberg, Yoko Tawada and Lev Tolstoy. The collection demonstrates that Barthes’s intermedial critical and theoretical practice provides a means of challenging fixed critical narratives and exploring crucial intermedial issues, including how narrative crosses media, the close relationship between image and text throughout history, and how twentieth-century consumer capitalist culture transformed the relationship between image and text.
BRITISH ROMANTICISM IN ASIA
2019
British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia (Palgrave Mcmillan), co-edited with Laurence Williams, is the first book-length study of how writers from India, Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan (e.g. Sōseki, Tagore and Zhimo) appropriated canonical British Romantic authors (e.g. Austen, Blake, Byron and Shelley). This collection seeks to challenge the Eurocentric idea of Asian receptions as derivative, focusing instead on the active and creative ways these writers responded to Romanticism. Reviewed in Essays in English Romanticism 44 (2020), 62-66.
ASIA-PACIFIC AND LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
2019-
Asia-Pacific and Literature in English Series (Palgrave Mcmillan) presents exciting and innovative academic research on Asia-Pacific interactions with Anglophone literary tradition. Its central focus is from the voyages of Captain Cook to the early twentieth century, but it will also consider previous encounters in the early modern period, as well as reception history continuing to the present day. I serve as one of the series co-editors along with Shun-liang Chao, Steve Clark, Tristanne Connolly and Laurence Williams.
ROMANTIC MARGINALITY
2012
Romantic Marginality: Empire and Nation on the Margins of the Page (Routledge) is the first critical study of Romantic-era annotation or marginalia – footnotes, endnotes, and glossaries. Although most readers tend to find footnotes a nuisance, in the hands of these writers, annotation became a crucial location in which they could provoke enemies, call politicians to account and disseminate information about foreign cultures. Examining such margins not only draws our attention to neglected aspects of texts frequently deleted by later editors, but also asks us to reconsider our understanding of the printed book in our current age of hypertext and globalization. Fortunately, this monograph received many endorsements and positive reviews such as Essays in English Romanticism 39/40 (2015), 187-191; European Romantic Review 25.4 (2014), 485-491; The BARS Review 44 (2014), 2-4; Keats-Shelley Journal 62 (2013), 151-153; and TLS (The Times Literary Supplement) 5718 (2012), 31.
