Waiyee Loh
Assistant Professor of World Literature
Department of English
Kanagawa University, Japan
Previous Events
Programme committee. “Comparative Empire: Conflict, Competition, Cooperation,” World Congress of the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, Singapore (9 – 22 June 2023)
https://www.sgncscongress.com/pastcongresses
Invited participant: “Festival of the Fantastic in Australian and Japanese Arts”
Funding organisation: Australia-Japan Foundation
Project leaders: Dr Lucy Fraser (University of Queensland), Dr Emerald King (University of Tasmania), and Dr Masafumi Monden (University of Sydney)
https://www.fantasyartsfest.com/
China Plates and Japanned Trays: British Encounters with Chinese and Japanese Aesthetics in the Long 19th Century
Research seminar with Dr Jenny Holt (Meiji University). University of Warwick (20 March 2017)
“Japanese Imperialism and Narrative Media in the Long Twentieth Century.”
Panel co-organised with Dr Michael Tsang (University of Newcastle) at the Joint East Asian Studies Conference, University of Edinburgh (4 – 6 September 2019)
Ongoing Projects
“Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom” East Asia group (August 2021 – present)
Development of lesson plans on "Transimperial Networks and East Asia"
UVC is a digital humanities project that explores how to teach Victorian studies in the light of social and racial inequality around the world.
https://undiscipliningvc.org/html/lesson_plans/east_asia_transimperial_introduction.html