Faculty

Yoshikuni Igarashi
Associate Professor of History

PhD, University of Chicago, 1994

Japanese cultural studies

Telephone: 615-322-3334
Email: yoshikuni.igarashi@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Office: 242 Buttrick Hall

Yoshikuni Igarashi is a specialist in modern Japanese cultural studies.  The radical transformation of Japanese society in the late 1960s and the 1970s has been the focus of his recent research. His recent publications include: “Joe & Hyûma: tôsô no jidai no hîrô tachi” (“Counter Culture for Sale: Kajiwara Ikki’s Manga Heroes in the Age of Mass Consumption.”) Cultures/Critiques, no. 1 (2009): 1-32, and “Tsuge Yoshiharu and postwar Japan: travel, memory and nostalgia,” Mecademia 6: The Force of Reception, forthcoming. He has also published Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture 1945-1970 (2000).

Courses taught:
157: History of Asian Civilization: Japan
200: The History Workshop
249: History of Modern Japan
250: Cultural and Social History of Japan’s Recent Past
295: Undergraduate Seminar in History
300a-300b: Introduction to Historical Methods and Research
360: Studies in Imperialis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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