Yohei Igarashi
Associate Professor of English, University of Connecticut
My writing focuses on how literature and literary study have historically related to broader cultures of information and communication. I’m the author of The Connected Condition: Romanticism and the Dream of Communication (2020), which recasts Romantic poetry as a response to the beginnings of the information age. I also work in the field of computational literary studies, and have written collaborative papers on topics ranging from poetic form to plain writing. I’m currently writing an account of the role of computing in the history of literary studies in the U.S. My wider interests include the histories of reading, writing, rhetoric, communication and media, and literary criticism.
I studied at New York University, where I got my Ph.D. in English Literature in 2012. Before that I studied at Columbia University for my M.A. and McGill University for my B.A. Here’s a recent short CV. (Photo by Joel Elliott)
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Dec 09, 2024 | December 9-24, 2024: Visiting scholar at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan |
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Aug 26, 2024 | For academic year 2024-2025: Faculty Fellow at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute |
Jul 29, 2024 | Keynote talk on the history of literary computing at the annual meeting of the Triangle Research Libraries Network |
Sep 05, 2023 | For academic year 2023-2024: in residence at the National Humanities Center as the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow |