Pastreich menjalani sekolah menengah di ''Lowell High School'' di [[San Francisco]], dan lulus pada 1983. Dia menjalani pendidikan tinggi di [[Universitas Yale]], di mana dia mendapatkan gelar B.A. dalam sastra [[CinaTiongkok]] pada tahun 1987,<ref>[http://pastreich.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/yale-diploma.jpg B.A. degree at Yale taken from Circles and Squares blog run by Emanuel Pastreich (13 November 2012).]</ref> dan selama menjalani pendidikan tinggi, dia juga melaksanakan pertukaran pelajar di [[Universitas Nasional Taiwan]].<ref>[http://pastreich.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/taida-id.jpg Study abroat at National Taiwan University taken from Circles and Squares blog run by Emanuel Pastreich (15 November 2012).]</ref> Pastreich memperoleh gelar M.A. dalam bidang komparasi sastra di [[Universitas Tokyo]] pada tahun 1991<ref>[http://pastreich.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tokyo-diploma.jpg M.A. degree at Tokyo taken from Circles and Squares blog run by Emanuel Pastreich (13 November 2012).]</ref>, di mana dia menulis [[disertasi]] berjudul, ''Edo kôki bunjin Tanomura Chikuden: Muyô no shiga'' (The Late Edo Literatus Tanomura Chikuden; Ketidakbergunaan lukisan dan sanjak), sepenuhnya dalam [[bahasa jepang]]. Dia kemudian kembali ke [[Amerika Serikat]] dan pada tahun 1998 mendapatkan gelar [[Ph.D.]] dalam pembelajaran [[Asia Timur]] dari [[Universitas Harvard]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shin|first1=Gi-wook|last2=Robinson|first2=Michael|year=2001|title=Colonial Modernity in Korea|url=http://books.google.co.kr/books?id=JMVgNnkZXAQC&pg=PA441&lpg=PA441&dq=%22emanuel+pastreich%22+Harvard&source=bl&ots=7gyCZ0pWK1&sig=FseWYkTmkpE_8ZYHdlKh7Ow9PLo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=26OcUPq2MayaiQfD44GYAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=November 9, 2012|page=441|quote=See Emanuel Pastreich, "The Reception of Chinese Vernacular Narrative in Korea and Japan" (PhD diss., Harvard University, 1997), pp. 49-52|ISBN=0674005945}}</ref> Dia menjabat asisten profesor di [[Universitas Illinois Urbana-Champaign]],<ref name="dailyillini">{{cite web |url=http://www.dailyillini.com/news/article_78f008f8-cebe-5d98-b018-61f826d74ab2.html |title=Debate about North Korea reaches students, faculty |last=Mellen |first=Brian |date=17 July 2006 |publisher=Daily Illini |accessdate=13 November 2012}}</ref><REF name>{{cite web |url=http://acdis.illinois.edu/aboutacdis/profile.html&pid=115 |title=Contact Information: Emanuel Pastreich |publisher=ACDIS, University of Illinois |accessdate=13 November 2012}}</ref> [[Universitas George Washington]], dan juga di<ref name="dailyillini" /> Solbridge International School of Business.<ref name="Yalejournal">{{cite journal |last=Simon |first=Ian D. |year=2011 |title=Plans of Mice and Men: From Bench Science to Science Policy |journal=Yale J. Biol. Med. |volume=84 |issue=3 |pages=237–242 |publisher=Yale University |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178853/ |accessdate=14 November 2012}}</ref> Pastreich pada saat ini menjabat di Fakultas College of International Studies, Kyung Hee University.<ref name="kyungheebio1" /><ref name="kyungheebio2" />
