Positioning Tokyo as Global City: Anglo-American Narratives of the New Japanese Capital, 1868 - 1922

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I have continued to develop my research into British travellers and residents in Tokyo during the long nineteenth century. In January of 2023, I co-organized (with Professor Alex Watson) a Meiji University symposium on "English Literature and the Pacific", chairing the plenary by Professor Steve Clark. I also gave three conference presentations in the last year: 1) a paper on "“The real melancholy inspired by autumn”: Lafcadio Hearn’s Translations of Japanese “Insect Melody”, at the University of Ghent "Unknown Tongues" seminar (April 2022); 2) a paper on “Re-Evaluating Elizabeth Craven: A Pioneering Eighteenth-Century Traveller and Feminist Writer”, at an online conference on “What’s in a Name? Re-evaluating marginalized figures from the Early Modern Period in Britain” (King’s College London, UK); and 3) a paper on “John Keats and Lafcadio Hearn’s Translations of Japanese Insect Melody”, at the 48th Japan Association of English Romanticism Conference, Matsuyama University. I have also submitted to Palgrave the complete manuscript of an edited collection (edited with Professor Tomoe Kumojima, Nara Women's University) on "Pacific Gateways: Trans-Oceanic Narratives and English Literature, 1780 to 1914". This manuscript will contain 15 essays. I have authored two essays: 1) the introduction, co-authored with Tomoe Kumojima, and 2) “An Aesthetic Gateway to Japan: Mount Fuji and the Steamship Arrival in British Travel Writing, 1880 to 1900”.