John Wilson's Web pages

 


Now that I am retired, the focus of these pages is slowly changing. I am in the process of updating the website, so please bear with me during the transition process!



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I look forward to teaching a couple of courses at ICU in the autumn.
A special welcome if you are thinking of taking either of these courses.
Take a look around, to see the kinds of things I've been teaching over the years,
and don't hesitate to contact me if there's anything you want to ask or say!

NEW:

"Protestant Polemic and the Japanese Martyrs"
(European Association for Japanese Studies Annual Conference, Tsukuba University, September 15, 2019)

ACTIVE COURSES FOR 2019:

English Skills A-2 (autumn)
English Skills B-2 (autumn)

English history, 1485-1714


YOUTUBE: "ANO SENSEI!" EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS
Since retiring I have been working on an online video channel. Enjoy!

YOUTUBE: ONLINE VIDEOS RECORDED FROM CLASSROOM LECTURES

RECENT CONFERENCES, ETC.:


"Putting the Text First: Literature and Culture in the Non-Native Context"
Keynote lecture, Nagoya University American Literature/Culture Society
and the Chukyo University Research Group on Teaching Academic Contents
(March 17, 2018)

"Reality? What reality? Student reactions to Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea"
(9th Liberlit Conference, Seikei Universitye (February 19, 2018)


"Why do we bother?" Retirement lecture, Sophia University (January 26, 2018)


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If you love books...

This book is a real treasure from the 15th century.

Take a look!

And here is a link to my collection of

17th century books: CLICK HERE!

My most recent publication is

Pain, Pleasure and Perversity:

Discourses of Suffering in Seventeenth-Century England

(Ashgate, 2013)

I maintain a blog for issues relating to the book here.

For a general list of my publications,

with access to some of them, go here.

And, just for fun...

  check my YouTube videos!  

 

 

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