Literature and Culture Studies
* The Victorian Novel
* The life and work of Wilkie Collins
* The serial publication of Victorian fiction, especially in newspapers
* The internationalization of the serial fiction market
in the nineteenth century
* Popular fiction genres, especially sensation novels, adventure stories, and thrillers
* British Film, especially in the 1940s and 1950s
* Editing and Digitalisation
Language and Education
* The history and theory of English-language education in Japan
* The teaching of English as a foreign language, especially reading skills
* The use of computers in education, especially in the study of languages and the humanities