Yusuke Wakazawa
Research Associate

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Biography

Yusuke Wakazawa is an intellectual historian of eighteenth-century Britain, chiefly of the Scottish Enlightenment, trained in Philosophy and English. He is particularly interested in David Hume as a distinctive man of letters, and discusses him along with representative figures of eighteenth-century literature including James Boswell and Tobias Smollett.

He has studied and researched in three countries: the UK (Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of York), the US (New York University), and Japan (Keio University and the University of Tokyo). In 2019, he completed his JASSO-funded doctorate in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.

His postdoctoral project aims to trace the intellectual genealogy of the Addisonian model of philosophy and conversation in the long eighteenth century.