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

我继续对十九世纪在东京的英国旅行者和居民进行研究。2023年1月，我与Alex Watson教授共同组织了明治大学“英国文学与太平洋”研讨会，由Steve Clark教授主持全体会议。去年我还做了三次会议报告：1)在根特大学“未知语言”研讨会上，一篇关于“秋天激发的真正忧郁”的论文：拉夫卡迪奥·赫恩对日本“昆虫旋律”的翻译（2022年4月）；2)在“名字里有什么？”在线会议上发表论文《重新评价伊丽莎白·克雷文：18世纪的先驱旅行家和女权主义作家》。重新评价近代早期英国的边缘人物”（伦敦国王学院，英国）；3)《济慈与赫恩对日本昆虫旋律的翻译》论文，第48届日本英语浪漫主义协会学术会议，松山大学。我还向帕尔格雷夫提交了一本关于《太平洋门户：1780年至1914年跨洋叙事和英国文学》的编辑集的完整手稿（与奈良女子大学的朋岛友夫教授一起编辑）。这份手稿将包含15篇文章。我已经写了两篇文章：1)与朋岛友（Tomoe Kumojima）合著的《导论》和2)《通往日本的美学之门：1880 - 1900年英国旅行写作中的富士山和蒸汽船的到来》。

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”.