News | Alex Watson

May 28, 20231 min read

Tokyo Humanities Cafe 12 (9 June)

Tokyo Humanities Cafe is back! We're excited to announce the return of our popular cafe series for the first time in three years! Please...

May 11, 20233 min read

Meiji University and UTS partnership

Meiji University and the University of Technology Sydney aim to enhance their partnership for internationalization. We just had a meeting...

May 2, 20231 min read

Recording of BARS Digital event

A recording of BARS Digital event (21 April, 2023) is now available on Youtube. My talk on Ito Junji's Frankenstein starts at 49:19.

May 2, 20231 min read

Pacific Intermediality, 1768-2022

I am very excited to announce that my new research project "Pacific Intermediality, 1768-2022" is funded by JSPS's Kakenhi grant (JPY 4.5...

Apr 7, 20232 min read

BARS Digital Event: The Pandemic and Romantic Pedagogy in Asia (21 April)

On Fri, 21 April 2023, 13:00 – 14:30 BST, I will be joining this online event as a speaker. Please check the details below. My paper is...

Mar 13, 20231 min read

Outreach talk at UTS (20 March)

I will give a talk "Five reasons to watch Japanese TV" at the University of Technology Sydney on 20 March.

Feb 20, 20231 min read

Third Workshop of Edinburgh-Meiji Research Partnership in Intermedia Studies (10 March)

Intercultural Transfers and Translations Across Media, the third Workshop of the University of Edinburgh-Meiji University Research...

Feb 2, 20232 min read

Languages and Culture seminar at La Trobe University (23 March)

I will be traveling to Australia next month! On March 23 at 1:00 pm, I will be giving a paper at the Languages and Culture Seminar at La...

Dec 20, 20221 min read

English Literature and the Pacific (21 January 2023)

Symposium "English Literature and the Pacific" will be held on 21 January 2023 at Meiji University. Places are limited, so if you are...

Dec 6, 20221 min read

Border Crossings: Meiji-Edinburgh Collaboration Symposium

Border Crossings: Meiji University-Edinburgh University Collaboration Symposium will be held on Sunday, 18 December 2023 at Meiji...

Dec 5, 20222 min read

The Pandemic and Romantic Pedagogy in Asia (April 2023)

On Fri, 21 April 2023, 13:00 – 14:30 BST (already talking about next year!), I will be joining this online event as a speaker. Please...

Sep 9, 20221 min read

Gothic in Asia Association roundtable

I will be participating a roundtable at the GAA (Gothic in Asia Association)'s inaugural event "Asian Folklore, Folk Horror and the...

Jul 22, 20221 min read

BARS/NASSR 2022

I will be giving a paper "The Pacific as Paratext: William Ellis' Footnotes for Polynesian Researches (1829)" at BARS/NASSR 2022 on...

Jul 18, 20221 min read

International Gothic Association Conference 2022

I will be giving a paper "Paratexts as Gothic Interruptions: Pacific Gothic in Anonymous’ The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman (1778)" at the...

Jul 1, 20221 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...

May 28, 20221 min read

International Liaison Officer at RSAA

I started serving as International Liaison Officer of Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA). I look forward to bring more...

Apr 26, 20221 min read

Pacific Marginality (Invited Talk at EARN)

As the 35th EARN public lecture (National Chengchi University, Tiawan), I will give a talk "Pacific Marginality: Annotation in Anglophone...

Apr 16, 20222 min read

Seminar: Translating British Romanticism in East Asia

International Seminar "Translating British Romanticism in East Asia" (Online event) Fri, 29 April 2022 16:00 – 18:00 JST...

Mar 9, 20221 min read

Workshop: Image, Music, Text

The inaugural workshop of the Edinburgh-Meiji Research Partnership, "Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and...

Feb 15, 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,...