He specializes in a socio-historical study of English literature in the 18th and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Romanticism. He is the author of Houses of England: The Transformation of the English Society and the Poetics of Architecture 1850-1950 (The University of Nagoya Press, 2019), a co-editor of Coleridge, Romanticism, and the Orient: Cultural Negotiations (Bloomsbury, 2013), and the editor of Coleridge’s Romanticism: its Poetics, Philosophy, Religion, and Science (The University of Tokyo Press, 2020). In addition to research on British Romanticism, he has been working on images and representations of modern London in literature and visual art, and also examining the way in which ideas and emotions related to ‘sympathy’ ramified from the late 18th to the mid-19th century, as we find in the literary and historical context.