Research/Areas of Interest:
Modern Literature (American, British), Modern Intellectual History (American, British), Aesthetics, Literary Theory
Education
- PhD, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York, United States
- MA, Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- BA, Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Ichiro Takayoshi is a historian specializing in American literature and social thought in the modern period. He is also interested in literary theory, aesthetics, and methodology. He is currently at work on a book on the history of reality and imagination in the U.S. and a book on a rational model of art consumption.