研究キーワード (4件)：
Asia-Pacific in English Literature
, Victorian literature
, 18世紀イギリス文学
, Travel writing
競争的資金等の研究課題 (6件)：
2015 - 2019 Chained Islands: Cross-Cultural Interactions Between Britain and Japan, 1660 - 1853
2015 - 2019 18世紀ロシア文学の「時間」の表象に見る近代市民社会の形成と精神文化の変遷
2015 - 2019 “Chained Islands: Cultural Interactions Between Japan and Britain, 1630-1850”
2015 - 2018 The formation of modern civil society and the transition of spiritual culture in the representation of "time" in 18th century Russian literature (co-researcher)
2018 - “Positioning Tokyo as Global City: Anglo-American Narratives of the New Japanese Capital, 1868-1922”
2012 - 2014 JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, “The Influence of Japan on English Literature and Culture, 1600-1780”
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論文 (8件)：
“‘Like the Ladies of Europe’? Female Emancipation and the ‘Scale of Civilization’ in Victorian Women’s Writing on Japan, 1840-80”. Studies in Travel Writing. 2017. 21. 1. 17-32
Laurence Williams, Steve Clark. “Isabella Bird, Victorian Globalism, and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880)”. Studies in Travel Writing. 2017. 21. 1. 1-16
Laurence Williams. Jonathan Swift and Kaempfer's history of Japan: The origins of the Court and Empire of Japan (1727/28). Notes and Queries. 2016. 63. 1. 79-82
“Anglo-Chinese Caresses: Civility, Friendship, and Trade in English Representations of China, 1760-1800”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2015. 38. 2. 277-296
Laurence Williams. “Two Boys with a Bladder”, Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97). 私の一枚 series (Tohoku Association for Romantic Studies website). 2021
“Working at a Japanese University: An Attractive Option for International Humanities PhDs?”. Tokyo Humanities Insights (web publication). 2019. 1. 1-15
(book review) Peter Kitson’s Forging Romantic China. Studies of Romanticism. 2015. 40. 191-195
“Reframing the Oriental Tale”. Cambridge Quarterly. 2009. 38. 2. 183-187
“City vices and rural virtues in Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer”. The English Review. 2008. 18. 4. 38-41
The Bloomsbury Handbook of British Romanticism and Asia, essay on “Hermit Kingdoms: British Ideas of Japan and Tibet, 1760-1860”
Bloomsbury 2025
Pacific Gateways: Trans-Oceanic Narratives and English Literature, 1780-1914
Palgrave 2024
Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class and Empire, essay entitled “Orientalising the British Class System: Exploring the ‘Chinese’ Landscapes of Sir William Chambers, 1740-1775”, 34-59
Edinburgh University Press 2022 ISBN:9781474456470
Pacific Insularity: Imaginary Geography of Insular Spaces in the Pacific, essay titled “Satire Across a ‘Sea of Islands’: Japan and the Pacific in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels” (41-56)
2021
Robinson Crusoe in Asia, essay entitled “Religious Conversion and the Far East in the Crusoe Trilogy”, 109-135
2021
Chair: “Sexual Politics of Empire” panel, Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies World Congress
(2023)
Co-organizer: “English Literature and the Pacific” symposium, Meiji University, Tokyo
(2023)
“John Keats and Lafcadio Hearn’s Translations of Japanese Insect Melody”
(48th Japan Association of English Romanticism Conference, Matsuyama University 2022)
“Re-Evaluating Elizabeth Craven: A Pioneering Eighteenth-Century Traveller and Feminist Writer”
(“What’s in a Name? Re-evaluating marginalized figures from the Early Modern Period in Britain”, King's College London (online presentation) 2022)
“‘The real melancholy inspired by autumn’: Lafcadio Hearn’s Translations of Japanese Insect Melody”
(Translating British Romanticism in East Asia, Ghent University (online presentation) 2022)
