Yohei Igarashi

Associate Professor

English

About

Yohei Igarashi (Ph.D., New York University, 2012) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. His writing to date focuses on how literature has historically related to communication, information, and technology. He is the author of The Connected Condition: British Romanticism and the Dream of Communication (Stanford University Press, 2020), a prize-winning essay in Studies in Romanticism, and other articles. In the field of computational literary studies, his work includes collaborative papers on topics ranging from poetic form to plain writing. From 2019–2023, he was Assistant then Associate Director at the UConn Humanities Institute, where he oversaw the Digital Humanities and Media Studies Initiative. In 2023–2024, he was the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the National Humanities Center. In 2024-2025, he will be a fellow at the UConn Humanities Institute.