研究者業績

LAURENCE WILLIAMS

ウィリアムズローレンス (WILLIAMS LAURENCE)

基本情報

所属: 上智大学外国語学部英語学科教授

学位: Ph.D.(Oxford University)
Ph.D.(オックスフォード大学)
Master of Studies(Oxford University)
Master of Studies(オックスフォード大学)
Bachelor of Arts(Oxford University)
Bachelor of Arts(オックスフォード大学)

連絡先: laurence-williamssophia.ac.jp
通称等の別名: Laurence Williams
研究者番号: 50750486
J-GLOBAL ID: 201801010652131232
researchmap会員ID: 7000023341

外部リンク: https://www.laurencewilliams.net

My current research explores the interactions between Utopian theory and British travel writing since the eighteenth century, focusing in particular on narratives of Asia. My personal website is www.laurencewilliams.net (hyperlink below).

I have published widely on British imperial narratives of Japan, China, and the Pacific, including books on Pacific Gateways: Trans-Oceanic Narratives and Anglophone Literature, 1780-1914 (co-edited with Tomoe Kumojima, 2024) and British Romanticism in Asia (co-edited with Alex Watson, 2019).

I have also guest-edited (with Steve Clark) a special issue of Studies in Travel Writing on "Isabella Bird, Victorian Women's Travel Writing, and Japan" (2017). I have published essays in journals including the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and edited volumes including New Directions in Travel Writing, and (forthcoming) the Bloomsbury Handbook of Romanticism in Britain and Asia. I am also a series editor for the Palgrave series "Asia-Pacific and Literature in English".

I am on sabbatical from April 2025-April 2026.

研究キーワード

4

研究分野

1

人文・社会 / 英文学、英語圏文学 /

受賞

5

論文

8

“‘Like the Ladies of Europe’? Female Emancipation and the ‘Scale of Civilization’ in Victorian Women’s Writing on Japan, 1840–80”

Studies in Travel Writing 21(1) 17-32 2017年
“Isabella Bird, Victorian Globalism, and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880)”

Laurence Williams, Steve Clark

Studies in Travel Writing 21(1) 1-16 2017年
Jonathan Swift and Kaempfer's history of Japan: The origins of the Court and Empire of Japan (1727/28)

Laurence Williams

Notes and Queries 63(1) 79-82 2016年
“Anglo-Chinese Caresses: Civility, Friendship, and Trade in English Representations of China, 1760–1800”

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 38(2) 277-296 2015年
英語文献のなかに江戸時代が? : ジョン・ロックとジョナサン・スウィフトの著作物に現れた日本の鎖国主義

Williams Laurence

東北ロマン主義研究 = Tohoku romantic studies 1(1) 1-18 2014年

もっとみる

MISC

6

“Two Boys with a Bladder”, Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97)

Laurence Williams

私の一枚 series (Tohoku Association for Romantic Studies website). 2021年9月招待有り
“Working at a Japanese University: An Attractive Option for International Humanities PhDs?”

Tokyo Humanities Insights (web publication) 1 1-15 2019年
(book review) Peter Kitson’s Forging Romantic China

Studies of Romanticism 40 191-195 2015年
“Reframing the Oriental Tale”

Cambridge Quarterly 38(2) 183-187 2009年
“City vices and rural virtues in Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer”

The English Review 18(4) 38-41 2008年

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書籍等出版物

14

European Minor Literatures and Transnational Romanticism

Laurence Williams, Brecht de Groote, others (担当:共著)

2026年
The Bloomsbury Handbook of British Romanticism and Asia, essay on “Hermit Kingdoms: British Ideas of Japan and Tibet, 1760–1860”

Williams, Laurence, Kitson, Peter, Watson, Alex

Bloomsbury 2025年
Pacific Gateways: Trans-Oceanic Narratives and English Literature, 1780–1914

Palgrave 2024年11月
Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class and Empire, essay entitled “Orientalising the British Class System: Exploring the ‘Chinese’ Landscapes of Sir William Chambers, 1740–1775”, 34-59

Ve-Yin Tee, Laurence Williams (担当:共著)

Edinburgh University Press 2022年 (ISBN: 9781474456470)
Pacific Insularity: Imaginary Geography of Insular Spaces in the Pacific, essay titled “Satire Across a ‘Sea of Islands’: Japan and the Pacific in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels” (41-56)

Michael Heitkemper-Yates, Thomas Schwarz, Laurence Williams (担当:共著)

2021年4月

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講演・口頭発表等

34

Japan as Utopia in 19th Century British Travel Writing

Laurence Williams

Language and Cultures Online Lecture Series, Ignatianum University, Poland 2025年12月3日
Chair: Panel on "Frankenstein Across Medias and Cultures"

Symposium: "Frankenstein in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Adaptation, Intermediality, Translation" (Meiji University) 2025年10月18日
“Nineteenth-Century British Writing on Japan and Isabella Bird’s ‘Unbeaten Tracks’”

Laurence Williams

College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University (Invited lecture) 2023年11月13日
Chair: “Sexual Politics of Empire” panel, Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies World Congress

2023年6月20日
Co-organizer: “English Literature and the Pacific” symposium, Meiji University, Tokyo

2023年1月21日
“John Keats and Lafcadio Hearn’s Translations of Japanese Insect Melody”

Laurence Williams

48th Japan Association of English Romanticism Conference, Matsuyama University 2022年10月16日
“Re-Evaluating Elizabeth Craven: A Pioneering Eighteenth-Century Traveller and Feminist Writer”

“What’s in a Name? Re-evaluating marginalized figures from the Early Modern Period in Britain”, King's College London (online presentation) 2022年8月25日
“‘The real melancholy inspired by autumn’: Lafcadio Hearn’s Translations of Japanese Insect Melody”

Laurence Williams

Translating British Romanticism in East Asia, Ghent University (online presentation) 2022年4月22日
“Romanticism in Asia” panel chair

Laurence Williams

Japan Association of English Romanticism 45th Annual Conference, Otsuma Women’s University 2019年10月20日
“First Impressions of Yokohama and Tokyo for Nineteenth-Century Western Travellers”

Simul Academy, Ginza, Tokyo 2019年8月招待有り
“Steamship Tourism and the ‘Arrival Scene’ in Japan in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives”

Aesthetics of Oceans (Seikei University, Tokyo) 2019年7月
“A Problematic Period? Teaching the Long Eighteenth Century” (presenter and session chair)

10th Annual Liberlit Conference (Seikei University, Tokyo) 2019年6月
Working at a Japanese University - advice for international students

Tokyo International Exchange Centre Career Forum 2019年2月
Introductory lecture on “Frankenstein at 200” and final roundtable

“Humanity and the Post-Human in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: A 200th Anniversary Symposium (1818–2018)” 2018年10月
“The “Sacred Mountain”: Visual and Religious Sublimity in Western Representations of Mount Fuji, 1880 – 1900”

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2018年4月
“An Aesthetic Gateway to Japan: Mount Fuji in Victorian Travel Accounts, 1880–1900”

Pacific Gateways 2017年11月
“Swift and the Anti-Cosmopolitan Vision: Rethinking the Japan Episode in Gulliver’s Travels”

Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) 2017年10月
“Demystifying the Discipline of Literary Studies”

8th Annual Liberlit Conference 2017年2月
“‘The Japanese have grown weary of standing apart’: J.G. Zimmermann, Romantic Solitude, and the ‘Opening’ of Japan, 1790–1860”

Romantic Legacies 2016年11月
“Gulliver and the Wall of Japan: Fumi-e in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels”

The Challenge of Japan 2016年9月
“Beyond Gulliver: Japan in English Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century”

University of Tokyo English Society 2016年3月
Session on postgraduate career development

7th Annual Liberlit Conference 2016年2月
“Like the Ladies of Europe: Victorian Women Writers on the Lives of Japanese Women, 1840–80”

Isabella Bird and the Poetics of Female Travel Writing 2015年6月
“Chained Islands: Japan in English Political Thought of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century”

“Japan in the Eyes of Others: Visions of Japanese Culture and Society Abroad” 2015年5月
“Why Study English Literature? An Introduction to Liberal Arts Research” (talk to Japanese high school students)

JSPS Science Dialogue Program 2014年8月
“Japan in the English Imagination, 1600-1800”

Kwansei Gakuin University (invited lecture) 2013年11月招待有り
“Transplanting the ‘Chinese Garden’ from Canton to England: William Chambers’s Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (1772)”

Japan Association for English Romanticism Annual Conference 2013年10月
“Chinese Influence in Eighteenth-Century English Gardens”

Tottori University, Japan (invited lecture) 2013年10月
“Defining English Identity in Japan: East India Company Accounts of the Japan Trade in Kyushu, 1600–1674”

University of Hong Kong, Department of English (invited lecture) 2013年3月招待有り
“James Burney and Omai”

Colloquium on “The Burney Family and the British Empire” 2012年10月招待有り
“Japanese Sakoku in Early Eighteenth-Century British Literature: Psalmanazar, Defoe, and Swift”

Tohoku Association for Romantic Studies conference 2012年2月
“Radical Perspectives on China: British Working-Class Travel Writing and the Macartney Embassy of 1793”

Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2011年10月
“Mediating the ‘Oriental City’ through the Arabian Nights: Eighteenth-Century English Travelers in Constantinople"

International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies seminar for junior scholars (Queen's University, Belfast) 2010年8月
“‘That place where the capital of the world ought to be placed’: Elizabeth Craven’s Constantinople”

British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford University 2009年1月

所属学協会

3

共同研究・競争的資金等の研究課題

6

Chained Islands: Cross-Cultural Interactions Between Britain and Japan, 1660 - 1853

日本学術振興会科学研究費助成事業 2015年4月 - 2019年3月

WILLIAMS Laurence
18世紀ロシア文学の「時間」の表象に見る近代市民社会の形成と精神文化の変遷

日本学術振興会科学研究費助成事業 2015年4月 - 2019年3月

金澤美知子, 塩川徹也, WILLIAMS Laurence, 宮田眞治
“Chained Islands: Cultural Interactions Between Japan and Britain, 1630–1850”

JSPS Kaken grant (15K16696) 2015年 - 2019年
The formation of modern civil society and the transition of spiritual culture in the representation of "time" in 18th century Russian literature (co-researcher)

JSPS (15K02406) 2015年 - 2018年
“Positioning Tokyo as Global City: Anglo-American Narratives of the New Japanese Capital, 1868–1922”

JSPS Kaken grant (18K12316) 2018年

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学術貢献活動

4

Reviewer for "Studies in Travel Writing"

査読

2023年8月
Series Editor, Palgrave "Asia-Pacific and Literature in English" series

企画立案・運営等

2018年 - 2023年
Reviewer for University of South Carolina Press

査読

2021年12月
Editorial consultant for PIE International edition of Kakuzo Okakura, "The Book of Tea" (2020)

監修

2020年 - 2020年

社会貢献活動

4

Advisory board, Routledge "Asia, Europe, and Global Connections" series

その他

2020年
Editorial committee, Palgrave "Asia Pacific and Literature in English" series

その他

2019年
Founding editor, "Tokyo Humanities", and co-organizer of Tokyo Humanities Cafe

その他

2016年
Editorial Committee, "Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture"

その他

2015年

その他

1

（免許・資格）Associate Fellow UK Higher Education Academy

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