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WILLIAMS LAURENCE

 
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NameWILLIAMS LAURENCE
Alternative Namesウィリアムズ・ローレンス
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AffiliationSophia University
SectionFaculty of Foreign Studies, Department of English Studies
Job titleAssociate Professor
DegreePh.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 number50750486
J-Global ID201801010652131232

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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
 

Papers

 
 
 
Laurence Williams   Steve Clark   
Studies in Travel Writing   21(1) 1-16   2017   
 
Laurence Williams   
Notes and Queries   63(1) 79-82   2016   
 
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies   38(2) 277-296   2015   
 

Misc.

 
 
Laurence Williams   
私の一枚 series (Tohoku Association for Romantic Studies website).      Sep 2021   [Invited]
 
Tokyo Humanities Insights (web publication)   1 1-15   2019   
 
Studies of Romanticism   40 191-195   2015   
 
Cambridge Quarterly   38(2) 183-187   2009   
 

Presentations

 
 
 
 
Laurence Williams   
48th Japan Association of English Romanticism Conference, Matsuyama University   16 Oct 2022   
 
“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   
 
Laurence Williams   
Translating British Romanticism in East Asia, Ghent University (online presentation)   22 Apr 2022   

Professional Memberships

 
 
   
 
Tohoku Association for Romanticism Studies (TARS)
 
   
 
Japan Association of English Romanticism
 
   
 
Southeast Asia Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Research Projects

 
 
Chained Islands: Cross-Cultural Interactions Between Britain and Japan, 1660 - 1853
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Williams Laurence 
Project Year: Apr 2015 - Mar 2019
 
Chained Islands: Cross-Cultural Interactions Between Britain and Japan, 1660 - 1853
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Williams Laurence 
Project Year: Apr 2015 - Mar 2019
 
The formation of modern civil society and the transition of spiritual culture in the representation of "time" in 18th century Russian literature
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
KANAZAWA Michiko 
Project Year: Apr 2015 - Mar 2019
 
Project Year: 2015 - 2019