Faculty of Foreign Studies, Department of English Studies
Job title
Associate Professor
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)
Research funding number
50750486
J-Global ID
201801010652131232
Profile
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
Asia-Pacific in English Literature
,Victorian literature
,Eighteenth-century British literature
,Travel writing
Research Areas
Humanities & social sciences / Literature - British/English-languag /
Awards
2012
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
2011
Canadian Commonwealth Postdoctoral Fellowship
2006
Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Award (UK)
2005
John Fuller Scholarship in English, Magdalen College, Oxford
2000
Gibbs Prize, Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
“What’s in a Name? Re-evaluating marginalized figures from the Early Modern Period in Britain”, King's College London (online presentation) 25 Aug 2022