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British Romanticism (Paratexts) / Reception of Romanticism in Asia / 19th century Anglophone-literature in Asia-Pacific region / British films / Gothic fiction

English language and literature are fantastic subjects to study at University because they open up the world, offering fresh opportunities as well as new understandings. I am excited to teach students at Meiji at all levels of language ability. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email me. For more details about my research and teaching please see my website: https://www.alexwatson.info

Arribert-Narce, F. and Watson, A. (eds.), Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and Beyond Roland Barthes (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2023), 230 pp.

Watson, A. and Williams, L. (eds.) British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 414 pp.

Watson, A., Romantic Marginality: Empire and Nation on the Margins of the Page (London: Routledge, 2012, hardcover; 2016, paperback), 202 pp.

Chao, S.-l., Clark, S., Connolly, T., Watson, A., Williams, L. (eds.) Asia-Pacific and Literature in English Series (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 - present).

Watson, A., ‘The Faith of the Faithless: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Notes for Queen Mab (1813)’ in Evy Varsamapoulou (ed.) Romantic Futures: Legacy, Prophecy, Temporality (New York: Routledge, 2023), pp. 129-147.

Watson, A., ‘The Perverse Footnote: Roland Barthes’ The Pleasure of the Text (1973) and the Politics of Paratextuality’ in Arribert-Narce, A., Endo, F. and Pawlikowska, K. (eds.) The Pleasure in/of the Text: About the Joys and Perversities of Reading (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021), pp. 15-36.

Watson, A., ‘Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846), European Romantic Review, 35:1 (2024), 93-109.

Watson, A., ‘Developing students’ intercultural communication through digital collaborative seminars linking Japan and Australia’, 暗网禁区 Asian Studies, 5 (2023), 71-91.

Watson, A., ‘Shadowing Shakespeare: Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha (1980) and William Shakespeare’s English History Plays (c. 1591-98)’, Critical Survey, 33.1 (2021), pp. 72-84.

Watson, A., ‘“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, 45 (2020), pp. 3-15.

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