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Footnotes to History (new book chapter)
My new paper ' Footnotes to History: Marginalizing Polynesia in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Song of Rahéro” and “The Feast of Famine”...
Jan 121 min read


Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846)
My paper, Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846), is now available open access . Thanks to Claire Knowles, Alexis Harley,...
Nov 21, 20241 min read


Edinburgh Critical Studies in World Literature and Intermediality
I am very pleased to announce this exciting new monograph series “Edinburgh Critical Studies in World Literature and Intermediality”,...
Jul 2, 20241 min read


Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846)
My new article 'Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846)' is published in the latest European Romantic Review.
Feb 29, 20241 min read


Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and Beyond Roland Barthes
New collection edited by Dr. Fabien Arribert-Narce and myself, Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and Beyond...
Dec 19, 20231 min read


New volume from Asia-Pacific and Literature in English series
The Chinese May Fourth Generation and the Irish Literary Revival: Writers and Fighters by Simone O’Malley-Sutton will be released from...
Oct 12, 20231 min read


The Faith of the Faithless: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Notes for Queen Mab (1813)
My new paper "The Faith of the Faithless: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Notes for Queen Mab (1813)" will be published in Evy Varsamapoulou (ed.)...
Sep 28, 20231 min read


Developing students’ intercultural communication through digital collaborative seminars
My new paper "Developing students’ intercultural communication through digital collaborative seminars linking Japan and Australia" is...
Sep 20, 20231 min read


Two new funds for Meiji-Edinburgh Research Partnership Project (Crossing Borders and new MA course)
Very pleased to announce that we, Meiji-Edinburgh Research Partnership Project team, just received two new funds (one research project...
Jul 1, 20221 min read


Asian English
From Palgrave's Asia-Pacific and Literature in English Series where I serve as co-editor, a new volume Asian English: Histories, Texts,...
Feb 15, 20221 min read


Robinson Crusoe in Asia
From Palgrave's Asia-Pacific and Literature in English Series where I serve as co-editor, a new volume Robinson Crusoe in Asia (edited by...
Dec 21, 20211 min read


The Perverse Footnote
The Pleasure in/of the Text: About the Joys and Perversities of Reading edited by Fabien Arribert-Narce, Endo Fuhito and Kamila...
Oct 6, 20211 min read


Review of Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now
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....
Sep 6, 20211 min read


BARS International Conference 2021
Delighted to be participating in the BARS International Conference next month. I will be hosting a salon "Romantic Paratexts and...
Jul 16, 20211 min read


JPY 1 M grant awarded for the Meiji & Edinburgh Intermediality Project
We are very pleased to announce that Meiji University now funds our Meiji-Edinburgh's Intermediality research project. We are thankful to...
Jul 11, 20211 min read


Review of The Lost Romantics: Forgotten Poets, Neglected Works and One-hit Wonders
My review of The Lost Romantics: Forgotten Poets, Neglected Works and One-hit Wonders ed. by Norbert Lennartz is out on the latest issue...
Jun 17, 20211 min read

Prof. Rumiko Oyama and my interview on the Meiji-Edinburgh Intermediality Research Project
Prof. Rumiko Oyama and my interview on the Intermediality Research Project between Japan and scotland (Meiji University and The...
May 18, 20211 min read

Meiji University's Research Partnership in Intermediality Studies with the University of Edinburgh
I am very happy to share that Meiji University now has a research partnership in intermediality studies with the University of Edinburgh....
May 8, 20211 min read


Shadowing Shakespeare paper discussed on Akira Kurosawa Info
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...
May 5, 20211 min read


Review of British Romanticism in Asia
Very positive and incisive review by Prof. David Chandler of "British Romanticism in Asia" I co-edited with Laurence Williams back in...
Apr 28, 20211 min read
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