LAURENCE WILLIAMS (WILLIAMS LAURENCE) - マイポータル - researchmap

基本情報

所属: 上智大学外国語学部英語学科教授

学位: Ph.D.(Oxford University)
Ph.D.(オックスフォード大学)
Master of Studies(Oxford University)
Master of Studies(オックスフォード大学)
Bachelor of Arts(Oxford University)
Bachelor of Arts(オックスフォード大学)

連絡先: laurence-williamssophia.ac.jp
通称等の別名: Laurence Williams
研究者番号: 50750486
J-GLOBAL ID: 201801010652131232
researchmap会員ID: 7000023341

外部リンク: https://www.laurencewilliams.net

My current research explores the interactions between Utopian theory and British travel writing since the eighteenth century, focusing in particular on narratives of Asia. My personal website is www.laurencewilliams.net (hyperlink below).

I have published widely on British imperial narratives of Japan, China, and the Pacific, including books on Pacific Gateways: Trans-Oceanic Narratives and Anglophone Literature, 1780-1914 (co-edited with Tomoe Kumojima, 2024) and British Romanticism in Asia (co-edited with Alex Watson, 2019).

I have also guest-edited (with Steve Clark) a special issue of Studies in Travel Writing on "Isabella Bird, Victorian Women's Travel Writing, and Japan" (2017). I have published essays in journals including the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and edited volumes including New Directions in Travel Writing, and (forthcoming) the Bloomsbury Handbook of Romanticism in Britain and Asia. I am also a series editor for the Palgrave series "Asia-Pacific and Literature in English".

I am on sabbatical from April 2025-April 2026.

研究キーワード

4

研究分野

1

人文・社会 / 英文学、英語圏文学 /

受賞

5

論文

8

“‘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 21(1) 17-32 2017年
“Isabella Bird, Victorian Globalism, and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880)”

Laurence Williams, Steve Clark

Studies in Travel Writing 21(1) 1-16 2017年
Jonathan Swift and Kaempfer's history of Japan: The origins of the Court and Empire of Japan (1727/28)

Laurence Williams

Notes and Queries 63(1) 79-82 2016年
“Anglo-Chinese Caresses: Civility, Friendship, and Trade in English Representations of China, 1760–1800”

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 38(2) 277-296 2015年
英語文献のなかに江戸時代が? : ジョン・ロックとジョナサン・スウィフトの著作物に現れた日本の鎖国主義

Williams Laurence

東北ロマン主義研究 = Tohoku romantic studies 1(1) 1-18 2014年
“British Government under the Qianlong Emperor’s Gaze: Satire, Imperialism, and the Macartney Embassy to China, 1792 – 1797”

Lumen: Journal of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 32 85-107 2013年
“Plagiarism and the Macartney Embassy to China (1792–1794): The Manuscript of Stephen Else”

Notes and Queries 59(3) 342-345 2012年
“The Wandering Line: Spatial Stories of the East in Eighteenth-Century English Literature”

University of Oxford doctoral dissertation 244 pp. 2010年

MISC

6

“Two Boys with a Bladder”, Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97)

Laurence Williams

私の一枚 series (Tohoku Association for Romantic Studies website). 2021年9月招待有り
“Working at a Japanese University: An Attractive Option for International Humanities PhDs?”

Tokyo Humanities Insights (web publication) 1 1-15 2019年
(book review) Peter Kitson’s Forging Romantic China

Studies of Romanticism 40 191-195 2015年
“Reframing the Oriental Tale”

Cambridge Quarterly 38(2) 183-187 2009年
“City vices and rural virtues in Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer”

The English Review 18(4) 38-41 2008年
(book review) Robert Markley’s The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600–1730

Notes and Queries 55(1) 104-106 2008年

書籍等出版物

14

European Minor Literatures and Transnational Romanticism

Laurence Williams, Brecht de Groote, others (担当:共著)

2026年
The Bloomsbury Handbook of British Romanticism and Asia, essay on “Hermit Kingdoms: British Ideas of Japan and Tibet, 1760–1860”

Williams, Laurence, Kitson, Peter, Watson, Alex

Bloomsbury 2025年
Pacific Gateways: Trans-Oceanic Narratives and English Literature, 1780–1914

Palgrave 2024年11月
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

Ve-Yin Tee, Laurence Williams (担当:共著)

Edinburgh University Press 2022年 (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)

Michael Heitkemper-Yates, Thomas Schwarz, Laurence Williams (担当:共著)

2021年4月
Robinson Crusoe in Asia, essay entitled “Religious Conversion and the Far East in the Crusoe Trilogy”, 109–135

Steve Clark, Yukari Yoshihara, Laurence Williams (担当:共著)

2021年
Handbook of British Travel Writing, essay on “Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Tour Thro’ The Whole Island of Great Britain” (161-180)

Laurence Williams (担当:共著)

2020年
文学的富士山ガイド, essay on “Western Representations of Mount Fuji in the Nineteenth Century” (23-26)

WILLIAMS LAURENCE

2020年
(volume co-editor) British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia

WILLIAMS LAURENCE (担当:共編者(共編著者))

Palgrave 2019年
(essay in edited volume) Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England (essay on “The Manchu Invasion of Britain: Nomadic Resonances in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Chinoiserie Aesthetics, and Material Culture”)

WILLIAMS LAURENCE

Palgrave 2019年
(co-editor of journal special issue) Isabella Bird, Victorian Women’s Travel Writing, and Japan

WILLIAMS LAURENCE (担当:共編者(共編著者))

Special journal issue of Studies in Travel Writing, 21.1 2017年
(essay in edited volume) New Directions in Travel Writing Studies, chapter on “Revising the Contact Zone: William Adams, Reception History, and the Opening of Japan, 1600 – 1860”

WILLIAMS LAURENCE

Palgrave Macmillan 2015年
(essay in edited volume) Eighteenth-Century Cultural Intermediaries, essay on “Navigating the Paths of Eastern Romance: The Arabian Nights in Eighteenth-Century English Descriptions of Constantinople”

WILLIAMS LAURENCE

Honoré Champion 2015年
(encyclopedia entry) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of British Literature: 1660–1789, contributor of essay on “The Oriental Tale”

WILLIAMS LAURENCE

Wiley-Blackwell 2014年

講演・口頭発表等

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Japan as Utopia in 19th Century British Travel Writing

Laurence Williams

Language and Cultures Online Lecture Series, Ignatianum University, Poland 2025年12月3日
Chair: Panel on "Frankenstein Across Medias and Cultures"

Symposium: "Frankenstein in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Adaptation, Intermediality, Translation" (Meiji University) 2025年10月18日
“Nineteenth-Century British Writing on Japan and Isabella Bird’s ‘Unbeaten Tracks’”

Laurence Williams

College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University (Invited lecture) 2023年11月13日
Chair: “Sexual Politics of Empire” panel, Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies World Congress

2023年6月20日
Co-organizer: “English Literature and the Pacific” symposium, Meiji University, Tokyo

2023年1月21日
“John Keats and Lafcadio Hearn’s Translations of Japanese Insect Melody”

Laurence Williams

48th Japan Association of English Romanticism Conference, Matsuyama University 2022年10月16日
“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年8月25日
“‘The real melancholy inspired by autumn’: Lafcadio Hearn’s Translations of Japanese Insect Melody”

Laurence Williams

Translating British Romanticism in East Asia, Ghent University (online presentation) 2022年4月22日
“Romanticism in Asia” panel chair

Laurence Williams

Japan Association of English Romanticism 45th Annual Conference, Otsuma Women’s University 2019年10月20日
“First Impressions of Yokohama and Tokyo for Nineteenth-Century Western Travellers”

Simul Academy, Ginza, Tokyo 2019年8月招待有り
“Steamship Tourism and the ‘Arrival Scene’ in Japan in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives”

Aesthetics of Oceans (Seikei University, Tokyo) 2019年7月
“A Problematic Period? Teaching the Long Eighteenth Century” (presenter and session chair)

10th Annual Liberlit Conference (Seikei University, Tokyo) 2019年6月
Working at a Japanese University - advice for international students

Tokyo International Exchange Centre Career Forum 2019年2月
Introductory lecture on “Frankenstein at 200” and final roundtable

“Humanity and the Post-Human in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: A 200th Anniversary Symposium (1818–2018)” 2018年10月
“The “Sacred Mountain”: Visual and Religious Sublimity in Western Representations of Mount Fuji, 1880 – 1900”

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2018年4月
“An Aesthetic Gateway to Japan: Mount Fuji in Victorian Travel Accounts, 1880–1900”

Pacific Gateways 2017年11月
“Swift and the Anti-Cosmopolitan Vision: Rethinking the Japan Episode in Gulliver’s Travels”

Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) 2017年10月
“Demystifying the Discipline of Literary Studies”

8th Annual Liberlit Conference 2017年2月
“‘The Japanese have grown weary of standing apart’: J.G. Zimmermann, Romantic Solitude, and the ‘Opening’ of Japan, 1790–1860”

Romantic Legacies 2016年11月
“Gulliver and the Wall of Japan: Fumi-e in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels”

The Challenge of Japan 2016年9月

もっとみる

所属学協会

3

共同研究・競争的資金等の研究課題

6

Chained Islands: Cross-Cultural Interactions Between Britain and Japan, 1660 - 1853

日本学術振興会科学研究費助成事業若手研究(B) 2015年4月 - 2019年3月

WILLIAMS Laurence
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

日本学術振興会科学研究費助成事業基盤研究(C) 2015年4月 - 2019年3月

金澤美知子, 塩川徹也, WILLIAMS Laurence, 宮田眞治
“Chained Islands: Cultural Interactions Between Japan and Britain, 1630–1850”

JSPS Kaken grant (15K16696) 2015年 - 2019年
The formation of modern civil society and the transition of spiritual culture in the representation of "time" in 18th century Russian literature (co-researcher)

JSPS (15K02406) 2015年 - 2018年
“Positioning Tokyo as Global City: Anglo-American Narratives of the New Japanese Capital, 1868–1922”

JSPS Kaken grant (18K12316) 2018年
JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, “The Influence of Japan on English Literature and Culture, 1600–1780”

2012年 - 2014年

学術貢献活動

4

Reviewer for "Studies in Travel Writing"

査読

2023年8月
Series Editor, Palgrave "Asia-Pacific and Literature in English" series

企画立案・運営等

2018年 - 2023年
Reviewer for University of South Carolina Press

査読

2021年12月
Editorial consultant for PIE International edition of Kakuzo Okakura, "The Book of Tea" (2020)

監修

2020年 - 2020年

社会貢献活動

4

Advisory board, Routledge "Asia, Europe, and Global Connections" series

その他

2020年
Editorial committee, Palgrave "Asia Pacific and Literature in English" series

その他

2019年
Founding editor, "Tokyo Humanities", and co-organizer of Tokyo Humanities Cafe

その他

2016年
Editorial Committee, "Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture"

その他

2015年

その他

1

（免許・資格）Associate Fellow UK Higher Education Academy