外国語学部 英語学科
Profile Information
- Affiliation
- Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Department of English Studies, Sophia University
- Degree
- 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)
- Contact information
- laurence-williams
sophia.ac.jp - Other name(s) (e.g. nickname)
- ウィリアムズ・ローレンス
- Researcher number
- 50750486
- J-GLOBAL ID
- 201801010652131232
- researchmap Member ID
- 7000023341
- External link
My research explores the interactions between travel writing and British literature in the long eighteenth century, focusing on narratives of China, Japan, and the Ottoman Empire. More recently, I have been working on nineteenth-century "globe-trotter" travel writing, particularly narratives written in the decades after the opening of Japan in the 1850s.
I'm currently co-editing a volume on Pacific travel writing, "Pacific Gateways", with Tomoe Kumojima. I co-edited (with Alex Watson) a collection of essays on "British Romanticism in Asia" (Palgrave, 2019), and (with Steve Clark) a Studies in Travel Writing special issue on "Isabella Bird, Victorian Women's Travel Writing, and Japan" (2017).
Research Interests
4Awards
5Papers
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Studies in Travel Writing, 21(1) 17-32, 2017
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Studies in Travel Writing, 21(1) 1-16, 2017
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Notes and Queries, 63(1) 79-82, 2016
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 38(2) 277-296, 2015
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Tohoku Romantic Studies, 1(1) 1-18, 2014
Misc.
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私の一枚 series (Tohoku Association for Romantic Studies website)., Sep, 2021 Invited
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Tokyo Humanities Insights (web publication), 1 1-15, 2019
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The English Review, 18(4) 38-41, 2008
Books and Other Publications
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Edinburgh University Press, 2022 (ISBN: 9781474456470)
Presentations
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Language and Cultures Online Lecture Series, Ignatianum University, Poland, Dec 3, 2025
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Symposium: "Frankenstein in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Adaptation, Intermediality, Translation" (Meiji University), Oct 18, 2025
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College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University (Invited lecture), Nov 13, 2023
Professional Memberships
3Research Projects
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2019
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2019
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JSPS Kaken grant (15K16696), 2015 - 2019
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“Positioning Tokyo as Global City: Anglo-American Narratives of the New Japanese Capital, 1868–1922”JSPS Kaken grant (18K12316), 2018
Academic Activities
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Planning, Management, etc.2018 - 2023
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Supervision (editorial)2020 - 2020