Early trains (four of them, for four and a half hours) to get to Shibuya after a hellish week at work, and I forgot (yet again) that there’s no longer a trolley service on the shinkansen so no coffee or breakfast until 11:30 when I arrived at the venue.
I see you studied at Aberdeen. Were you with Prof Alan Spence? How did you come to Nagoya? Do Japanese Eng Lit departments still talk about the English poets who went there to teach - Blunden, Plomer, Empson, Kirkup, Thwaite, Harry Guest? (I am researching them and the impact Japan had on their work.)
Hi Mandi, yes Alan was my teacher for a while and we're still in touch. I moved to Japan in 2005 intending to stay for a year and never left. In my experience those names haven't cropped up but I've only worked at a couple of places and as far as I know haven't worked with anyone who specialises in that area.
Good to know you are in touch with Prof Spence. I love his books. I tried to contact him via his aberdeen email about Mr Timeless Blyth but I don't think it reached him. Also love Alan Booth's walking Japan books, so sad he died so young.
I see you studied at Aberdeen. Were you with Prof Alan Spence? How did you come to Nagoya? Do Japanese Eng Lit departments still talk about the English poets who went there to teach - Blunden, Plomer, Empson, Kirkup, Thwaite, Harry Guest? (I am researching them and the impact Japan had on their work.)
Hi Mandi, yes Alan was my teacher for a while and we're still in touch. I moved to Japan in 2005 intending to stay for a year and never left. In my experience those names haven't cropped up but I've only worked at a couple of places and as far as I know haven't worked with anyone who specialises in that area.
Good to know you are in touch with Prof Spence. I love his books. I tried to contact him via his aberdeen email about Mr Timeless Blyth but I don't think it reached him. Also love Alan Booth's walking Japan books, so sad he died so young.
I think that email still works so worth trying again.