Watson Alex

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor
Homepage URL (1)： https://www.alexwatson.info/

Research field (1)： Literature - British/English-languag

Research keywords (13)： Marginalia , Paratext , 英米文学 , Edgar Allan Poe , Literary theory , Comparative literature , Romanticism in Asia , Postcolonial Theory , British cinema , 19th century , 18th century , Gothic , Romanticism

Research theme for competitive and other funds (10)：

2023 - 2026 Pacific Intermediality, 1768-2022
2023 - 2024 明治大学国際共同研究支援事業II型 ‘Intermedial Intersections between High and Popular Culture: Masks and Screens, Monsters and Icons’
2023 - 2024 _
2023 - 2024 _
2022 - 2023 Border Crossing: Image, Music, Text Intermediality

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Papers (9)：

Alex Watson. Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846). European Romantic Review. 2024. 35. 1. 93-109
Developing students’ intercultural communication through digital collaborative seminars linking Japan and Australia. Meiji University Asian Studies. 2023. 5. 71-91
Alex Watson. Shadowing Shakespeare: Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha (1980) and William Shakespeare's English History Plays (c. 1591-98). Critical Survey. 2021. 33. 1. 72-84
Alex Watson. "The Garb of Fiction": Edgar Allan Poe's Notes for the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838). Review of Asian and Pacific Studies. 2020. 45. 3-15
Watson Alex. Radical Enlightenment: The Strange Power of Constantin de Volney's Les Ruines, ou, révolutions des empires (1791). 日本女子大学英米文学研究. 2014. 49. 99-112

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MISC (12)：

Alex Watson. Review of Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now. Kyoto Journal. 2021
Alex Watson. Review of The Lost Romantics: Forgotten Poets, Neglected Works and One-hit Wonders ed. by Norbert Lennartz. The Byron Journal. 2021. 49. 1. 86-88
Alex Watson. Review of "Japan" by Jeff Kingston. 2020. 98. 98-98
Watson, Alex. The Statue of Times Forgotten (Review of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri). Kyoto Journal. 2020. 97. 123-123
Watson, Alex. Footnotes in the Long Eighteenth Century: Recommended Secondary Reading. Eighteenth-Century Paratext Research Network. 2020

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Books (12)：

Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and Beyond Roland Barthes (European Connections)
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers 2023 ISBN:1803740337
Romantic Futures: Legacy, Prophecy, Temporality (Routledge Studies in Romanticism)
Routledge 2023 ISBN:1032334665
The Pleasure In/Of the Text: About the Joys and Perversities of Reading (European Connections)
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers 2021 ISBN:1789977002
British Romanticism in Asia : the reception, translation, and transformation of Romantic literature in India and East Asia
Palgrave Macmillan 2019 ISBN:981133000X
Asia-Pacific and Literature in English Series
Palgrave Macmillan 2019

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Lectures and oral presentations (53)：

The Intermedial Margins: Annotation and Illustration in William Mariner and John Martin’s An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands (1817)
(Pacific Intermediality Special Lecture and Symposium 2024)
‘“To carnage and the Koran giv’n”: Orientalism and Islamophobia in Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh (1817)
(Japan Association of English Romanticism: 50th Annual Conference 2024)
Transforming Romantic-period British Orientalism: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Construction of Hindu Nationalism in "Ānandamath" (1882)
(NASSR 2024 Romantic Insurrections / Counter-Insurrections 2024)
Developing students’ intercultural communicaBon through digital collaboraBve seminars linking Japan and Australia
(THE 11th ANNUAL LIBERLIT CONFERENCE 2024)
The Face of the Pacific: Sydney Parkinson’s A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas (1773)
(Theories and Practices of Intermediality Today 2024)

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Professional career (1)：

D. Phil. in English (University of York)

Work history (7)：

2024/04 - 現在 Meiji University School of Arts and Letters Professor
2019/04 - 2024/03 Meiji University School of Arts and Letters Associate Professor
2016/10 - 2019/03 Nagoya University Graduate School of Humanities Associate Professor
2011/04 - 2016/09 Japan Women's University Department of English Assistant Professor
2010/07 - 2011/03 University of Edinburgh School of Literatures, Language and Cultures Visiting Academic Postdoctoral Fellow

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Committee career (5)：

2024/06 - 現在 Edinburgh University Press Advisory Board, Edinburgh Critical Studies in World Literature and Intermediality Series
2022 - 現在 Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA) International Liaison Officer
2019 - 現在 European Romantic Review Paper Reviewer
2018 - 現在 Editorial Board, Palgrave Communications Associate Editor
2018 - 2018 City University of Hong Kong External Tenure Reviewer

Awards (4)：

2010/07 - Centre for Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century, University of Edinburgh Research Fellowship
2009 - University of Edinburgh Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
2005 - University of York F. R. Leavis Postgraduate Award
2003 - British Association for Romantic Studies Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Award

Association Membership(s) (3)：

British Association for Romantic Studies , Modern Language Association , JAPAN ASSOCIATION OF ENGLISH ROMANTICISM

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