BA, McGill University, 2001; MA, Columbia University, 2005; PhD, New York University, 2012
Instructor, New York University, 2010; Instructor, Rutgers University, 2009
Yohei Igarashi specializes in 18th- and 19th-century British poetry, especially British Romantic poetry, and teaches more widely on literary history, 19th-century literature and science, and the histories of reading, writing, and the criticism and study of literature. His work is informed by media studies and communication theory, the rhetorical tradition, and poetics.
The Poetry Channel: Communication, Literary History, & the Problem of Transmission in British Romanticism (book project, in progress)
"Keats’s Ways: The ‘Dark Passages’ of Mediation and Why He Gives Up Hyperion," Studies in Romanticism (forthcoming)
Selected Panels and Presentations
“Romantic Media Studies: Means of Reading and Reading for Means” Roundtable, MLA Convention, Boston, January 2013
“‘Why Westward Turn?’ Keats and the Progress of Poesy,” English Romantic Division, MLA Convention, Los Angeles, 2011
“Keats's Perplex,” Romantic Mediations, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Vancouver, Canada, Summer 2010
“The Romantic Genes of Modern Difficulty,” Romanticism and Modernity, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Duke University, Spring 2009
Affiliations
The Re:Enlightenment Project at New York University and the New York Public Library; Modern Language Association; North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Major Grant, Colgate University Faculty Development Council, 2012; Halsband Fellowship in Eighteenth-Century English Studies, NYU, 2010-2011; Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship, NYU, 2006-2010