Pasrah: Pastreich kuliah di Lowell High School di San Fransisco, lulus taun 1983. Manéhna mimiti kuliah di Yale University, lulus jeung gelar B.A. dina Basa Cina taun 1987, sarta salila kuliah kuliah di luar nagri di National Taiwan University. Pastreich meunangkeun gelar M.A. dina literatur komparatif di Universitas Tokyo taun 1991, di mana manéhna nulis disertasi master, Edo kôkijin bun Tanomura Chikuden: Edo Muyô no shiga" (The Late Literatus Tanomura Chikuden; The Uselessness of Painting and Poetry), sagemblengna dina basa Jepang. Manéhna tuluy balik deui ka Amérika Sarikat sarta taun 1998 meunang gelar Ph.D. dina studi Asia Wétan di Universitas Harvard. Manéhna jadi asistén profesor di Universitas Illinois di Urbana-Champaign, George Washington, jeung Sakola Bisnis Internasional Solbridge.
Universitas Illionis di Urbana<unk>Champaign, Universitas George Washington, jeung Solbridge International School of Business