Yohei Igarashi

Associate Professor of English

Associate Director, Humanities Institute

English, Humanities

About

Yohei Igarashi is an Associate Professor of English and the Associate Director of the Humanities Institute at UConn. Igarashi’s recent publications include:

• “Literary Data and the Discipline” in The Cambridge Companion to Literature in the Digital Age (forthcoming)
• The Connected Condition: Romanticism and the Dream of Communication (Stanford University Press, 2019)
• “Statistical Analysis at the Birth of Close Reading,” New Literary History 46.3 (2015)
• “Keats’s Ways: The Dark Passages of Mediation and Why He Gives Up Hyperion,” Studies in Romanticism 53.2 (2014)

Specialties

• British romantic literature
• poetics
• media studies
• history of rhetoric
• histories of reading, writing, and literary criticism