University of Huddersfield   School of Music, Humanities & Media   Teaching Fellow

2009.9 - 2010.7

University of Edinburgh   Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities   Postdoctoral Fellow

2009.1 - 2009.9

The Perverse Footnote: Roland Barthes’ The Pleasure of the Text (1973) and the Politics of Paratextuality

Alex Watson

The Pleasure in/of the Text: About the Joys and Perversities of Reading   15 - 36   2021.9

Shadowing Shakespeare: Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha (1980) and William Shakespeare's English History Plays (c. 1591–98) Invited Reviewed

Alex Watson

Critical Survey   33 ( 1 )   72 - 84   2021.3

"The Garb of Fiction": Edgar Allan Poe's Notes for the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) Invited Reviewed

Alex Watson

Review of Asian and Pacific Studies   45   3 - 15   2020.12

Marginal Imprints: Robert Southey’s notes for Madoc (1805)

Alex Watson

Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Studies in Text and Print Culture)   89 - 102   2017

Ruins of Empire: Refashioning the Gothic in J. G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun (1984)

Alex Watson

Gothic Landscapes: Changing Eras, Changing Cultures, Changing Anxieties   271 - 291   2016.11

The Garden of Forking Paths: Para texts in Travel Literature

Alex Watson

New Directions in Travel Writing Studies   54 - 68   2015

Radical Enlightenment: The Strange Power of Constantin de Volney's Les Ruines, ou, révolutions des empires (1791)

Watson Alex

日本女子大学英米文学研究   ( 49 )   99 - 112   2014.3

Translating India : Geopolitical Identity in Elyzabeth Hamilton's Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah(1797)

Watson Alex

Japan Women's University studies in English and American literature   47 ( 47 )   67 - 78   2012.3

Village Politics: Imagining the Lowlands in John Gibson Lockhart’s Adam Blair (1822)

Alex Watson

揺るぎなき信念-イギリス・ロマン主義論集   237 - 262   2012

‘Thirteen Ways of Glossing ‘To a Haggis’: Disputing the Borders of Robert Burns’ Paratexts’ Reviewed

Alex Watson

International Journal of Scottish Literature   6   1 - 24   2010

Byron’s Marginalia to English Bards and Scotch Reviewers Reviewed

Alex Watson

The Byron Journal   37 ( 2 )   131 - 139   2009

The Dark Assassin: Thomas James Mathias’ Notes for The Pursuits of Literature

Alex Watson

Double Vision: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literary Palimpsests   37 - 55   2008

Historicizing the Jupien Effect: Paratextual Anxieties in Eighteenth Century Critical Discourse Reviewed

Watson, Alex

Working With English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and Drama   4 ( 1 )   70 - 88   2008

The Statue of Times Forgotten (Review of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri) Invited

Watson, Alex

Kyoto Journal   97   123 - 123   2020.4

Caught on the Tracks (Review of On the Bullet Train With Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan by Judith Pascoe) Invited

Watson, Alex

Kyoto Journal   95   102 - 102   2019.9

Review of British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason by Timothy Michael Invited Reviewed

Alex Watson

The Byron Journal   47 ( 1 )   86 - 88   2019

Review of Jeffrey Einboden, Islam and Romanticism: Muslim Currents from Goethe to Emerson (London: Bloomsbury, 2014) Invited Reviewed

Alex Watson

The Byron Journal   46 ( 1 )   85 - 86   2018

Review of William Christie, The Two Romanticisms, and Other Essays: Mystery and Interpretation in Romantic Literature (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2016) Invited Reviewed

Alex Watson

The Byron Journal   46 ( 1 )   90 - 92   2018

Book Reviews : Steve Clark and Tristanne Connolly (eds.), British Romanticism in European Perspective : Into the Eurozone

Essays in English Romanticism   ( 41 )   134 - 139   2017

British Gothic Monsters in East Asian Culture: Ideas to Kick-start Reading and Viewing

Swift C, Olive S, Watson A

Times Educational Supplement   2016.12

Review of Carla Pomarè, Byron and the Discourses of History (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013) Reviewed

Alex Watson

The BARS Bulletin & Review   43   23 - 24   2013

The Value of Public Humanities Event Organizations for Literary Studies: Tokyo Humanities Café

Alex Watson

Liberlit 12  2025.6 

Packaging Japan: Paratexts for English Translations of Japanese Literature

Alex Watson

WORLD LITERATURE AND INTERMEDIALITY: An International and Interdisciplinary Workshop  2025.3 

The Intermedial Margins: Annotation and Illustration in William Mariner and John Martin’s An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands (1817)

Alex Watson

Pacific Intermediality Special Lecture and Symposium  2024.10 

‘“To carnage and the Koran giv’n”: Orientalism and Islamophobia in Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh (1817)

Alex Watson

Japan Association of English Romanticism: 50th Annual Conference  2024.10 

Transforming Romantic-period British Orientalism: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Construction of Hindu Nationalism in "Ānandamath" (1882)

Alex Watson

NASSR 2024 Romantic Insurrections / Counter-Insurrections  2024.8 

Developing students’ intercultural communicaBon through digital collaboraBve seminars linking Japan and Australia

Alex Watson

THE 11th ANNUAL LIBERLIT CONFERENCE  2024.6 

The Face of the Pacific: Sydney Parkinson’s A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas (1773) International conference

Alex Watson

Theories and Practices of Intermediality Today  2024.3 

The World in Miniature: Walter Benjamin and Phillip de Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon (1781)

Alex Watson

“Masks and Screens”: Meiji University-Edinburgh University Collaboration Symposium  2023.12 

Renewing the Text: Editorial Paratexts for Lord Byron’s The Island (1823)

Alex Watson

RSAA Conference 2023  2023.12 

Inverting Race: Enlightenment and Romanticism in George Forster’s Construction of the Human in A Voyage Round the World (1776/7)

Alex Watson

ERCC Conference 2023: 'Inventing the Human'  2023.11 

The Pacific as Paratext: John Williams’ A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands

Alex Watson

Japan Association of English Romanticism: 49th Annual Conference  2023.10 

The Pacific as Paratext: John Williams’ A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands (1837)

Alex Watson

SGNCS World Congress  2023.6 

Romanticism in Asia: Junji Ito’s Frankenstein (2018) Invited

Alex Watson

BARS Digital Event: The Pandemic and Romantic Pedagogy in Asia  2023.4 

Characterizing the Pacific: Phillippe Jacques de Loutherbourg and John O’Keefe’s Omai, or a Trip Around the World (1785) Invited

Alex Watson

La Trobe Languages and Culture Seminar  2023.3 

The World in Miniature: Walter Benjamin and Phillip de Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon (1781) Invited International coauthorship International conference

Alex Watson

Intercultural Transfers and Translations Across Media, the third Workshop of the University of Edinburgh-Meiji University Research Partnership in Intermedia Studies  2023.3 

‘An Assemblage of the Most Beautiful Scenery’: Phillippe Jacques de Loutherbourg and John O’Keefe’s Omai, or a Trip Around the World (1785) Invited

Alex Watson

Border Crossings: Meiji University-Edinburgh University Collaboration Symposium  2022.12 

Roundtable discussion on Asian Folklore, Folk Horror and the Gothic Invited

Asian Folklore, Folk Horror and the Gothic  2022.9 

The Pacific as Paratext: William Ellis' Footnotes for Polynesian Researches (1829)

Alex Watson

BARS/NASSR 2022  2022.8 

Paratexts as Gothic Interruptions: Pacific Gothic in Anonymous’ The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman (1778)

Alex Watson

The 16th International Gothic Association Conference  2022.7 

Pacific Marginality: Annotation in Anglophone Writing on the Pacific, 1768–1829 Invited

Alex Watson

The 35th EARN lecture, National Chengchi University, April 2022.  2022.5 

Framing Romanticism: Blake in Paratexts in Japanese Translation

Alex Watson

Translating British Romanticism in East Asia  2022.4 

Intermedial Post-Romanticism: W. G. Sebald’s Ruins of Empire in Austerlitz (2001) Invited

Alex Watson

Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and Beyond Roland Barthes  2022.3 

The Margins as Bonds International conference

Alex Watson

Bonds: International Conference on Romanticism 2021  2021.10 

The Footnote: A Defense Invited

Watson, Alex

Nerd Nite: Daggers & Droppings  2020.10 

The Intermedial Margins: Georg Forster’s notes for A Voyage Round the World (1775)

Alex Watson

The Intermedial Eighteenth Century: Textual and Visual Arts, 1660-1832  2020.9 

The Pacific in the Margins: Mary Russell Mitford’s notes for Christina, the maid of the South Seas (1811) and Lord Byron’s notes for The Island, or Christian and His Comrades (1823) Invited

Alex Watson

2020.4  Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

[H]ope’s last gleam in man’s extremity”: Lord Byron’s notes for The Island, or Christian and His Comrades (1823) International conference

Watson, Alex

Embodying Romanticism (Romantic Studies Association of Australia 2019 Conference)  2019.11 

[H]ope’s last gleam in man’s extremity”: Lord Byron’s notes for The Island, or Christian and His Comrades (1823)

Watson, Alex

Japan Association of English Romanticism 45th Annual Conference  2019.10 

Be There: Events that Bring Words to Life

Alvarez, Amanda, Watson, Alex

Japan Writers Conference  2019.10 

The Pacific in the Margins: Mary Russell Mitford’s Notes for Christina, Maid of the South Seas (1811) International conference

Watson, Alex

International Conference on Romanticism  2019.7 

The Garb of Fiction: Edgar Allan Poe’s Self-Undermining Paratexts for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) Invited

Watson, Alex

International Conference on the Aesthetic Mechanisms of Ocean Representations in British, American and Asian Contexts  2019.7 

A Problematic Period? Teaching the Long Eighteenth Century Invited International conference

Alex Watson

Liberlit 10  2019.6 

Book Launch Lecture: British Romanticism in Asia Invited

Alex Watson, Laurence Williams

2019.6 

Romantic Marginality: Why Annotation Matters Invited

Alex Watson

Studium Generale (Fall 2018)  2018.10  Nagoya University

Kurosawa’s Shadow Gothic: Gothic Hybridity in Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha International conference

Alex Watson

The 14th International Gothic Association Conference  2018.8  International Gothic Association

Regenerating Romantic Marginality: Edgar Allan Poe’s notes for Al-Aaraaf (1829) Invited International conference

Alex Watson

Romantic Regenerations  2018.7 

The Garb of Fiction: Edgar Allan Poe’s Self-Undermining Paratexts for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) International conference

Alex Watson

University of Hong Kong  2018.5 

Political and Social History through British Film Invited

Alex Watson

Graduate School of Literature and Social Sciences, Nihon University  2018.1 

Why Footnotes Matter Invited

Alex Watson

Graduate School of Literature and Social Sciences, Nihon University  2018.1 

Footnotes to History: Polynesian Marginality in Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Song of Rahéro: A Legend of Tahiti’ and ‘The Feast of Famine: Marquesan Manners’ (1890) International conference

Alex Watson

Pacific Gateways: International Symposium on English literature and the Pacific Ocean, 1760-1914  2017.11 

Imperial Ruins: Indian Ruins in British Romantic-Period Travel Writing International conference

Alex Watson

BARS 2017: Romantic Improvement  2017.7 

Literature of the Ruins: Breaking Down Walls in W. G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction (1999) and Austerlitz (2001)

Alex Watson

‘Walls’ in Anglo-American Literature and Culture  2017.3 

Literature of the Ruins: The Ruin Motif in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz (2001) and On the Natural History of Destruction (2003) International conference

Alex Watson

Romantic Legacies: The 13th Annual Wenshan International Conference  2016.11 

The Faith of the Faithless: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Political Theology in Queen Mab (1813) International conference

Alex Watson

Romanticism and its Discontents: Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism  2016.8 

The Perverse Footnote: Roland Barthes’ The Pleasure of the Text (1973) and the Politics of Paratextuality International conference

Alex Watson

Roland Barthes at 100, University of Tokyo Symposium  2015.12 

Limits and Liminality in Never Let Me Go (2005 and 2010) International conference

Alex Watson

Seventh Annual Liberlit Conference: Intercultural Limits and Liminality  2015.12 

Annotation as Imprint: Tracing the Journey from Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism to Romantic Imperialism in Robert Southey’s Madoc (1805) International conference

Alex Watson

Romantic Imprints: 2015 BARS International Biennial Conference  2015.7 

China’s Ruins: The Ruin Motif in Romantic Sinology

Alex Watson

Japan Association of English Romanticism Conference  2014.10 

Romanticism’s Exports: Lord Byron and Cantos I and II of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812) in Post-War Albanian Politics International conference

Alex Watson

Romantic Imports and Exports: 2013 BARS International Biennial Conference  2013.7 

Two Kinds of Marginality: Romantic Marginality and the Scottish Lowlands

Alex Watson

MESA Conference  2012.12 

Imagining the Lowlands Invited

Alex Watson

School of Humanities, Music and Media, University of Huddersfield  2011.2 

Lockhart and the Lowlands

Alex Watson

Centre for Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century, Department of Literature, University of Edinburgh  2010.12 

Translating India: Geopolitical Identity in Elizabeth Hamilton's Paratexts for Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (1797)

Alex Watson

The Author-Translator Conference  2010.6 

Master of Arts (M.A.) in Global Intermedia Studies

2022.6 - 2023

Meiji University  Meiji University Graduate School GP (Good Practice) 2022: Education Reform Program 

Image, Music, Text --- Intermediality

2021.7 - 2022.3

Meiji University  Aid for International Joint Research Projects 2021 (Type II) 

Alex Watson, 大山るみ子, Fabien Arribert-Narce

Pacific Paratexts in Anglophone Writing, 1768-1914

Grant number：19K00446  2019.4 - 2023.3

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Alex Watson

British Gothic in Asia

2017 - 2018

Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation  Daiwa Foundation Awards 

Alex Watson

British Gothic Monsters in East Asia

2016 - 2018

University of York  Research Priming Fund 

Alex Watson, Sarah Olive

“Masks and Screens”: Meiji University-Edinburgh University Collaboration Symposium International contribution

Role(s)： Planning, management, etc.,　Planning/Implementing academic research

Alex Watson; Rumiko Oyama; Fabien Arribert-Narce; Marion Schmid  （ Meiji University ） 2023.12

Romanticism in Australia

Role(s)： Planning, management, etc.,　Panel moderator, session chair, etc.

（ Nihon Women's University ） 2023.10

English Literature and the Pacific International contribution

Role(s)： Planning, management, etc.,　Panel moderator, session chair, etc.

Alex Watson, Laurence Williams  （ Meiji University ） 2023.1

Research Partnership between Meiji University and the University of Edinburgh International contribution

Role(s)： Planning, management, etc.,　Panel moderator, session chair, etc.,　Supervision (editorial),　Planning/Implementing academic research,　Peer review

Alex Watson, Rumiko Oyama, Fabien Arribert-Narce  （ Meiji University, The University of Edinburgh ） 2021.5