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...

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

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. ...

Prof. Judith Pascoe (Florida State university) will give special lecture "Wuthering Heights, World Literature, and Japanese Child...

I will give a paper " [H]ope’s last gleam in man’s extremity”: Lord Byron’s notes for The Island, or Christian and His Comrades (1823) "...

Prof. Ian Haywood's special talk "Frankenstein: The Illustrated 1818 Edition" went great at Meiji University. Thanks everyone for coming...

Thank you all for coming to Hamlet in Original Pronunciation yesterday! We are so happy that a big audience showed up. Ben Crystal and...

Pleased to announce that Prof. Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton) will give a special lecture "Frankenstein: The Illustrated 1818...

The Japan Association of English Romanticism's 45th Annual Conference will be held at Otsuma Women's University on Oct 19 to 20. I will...

My department of Meiji University is hosting "Hamlet in Original Pronunciation", the lecture and performance by Ben Crystal on Sunday,...

I am going to give paper "The Pacific in the Margins: Mary Russell Mitford’s Notes for Christina, Maid of the South Seas (1811)" at the...

My review of British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason by Timothy Michael is out in the latest issue of The Byron Journal.

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...

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...