Thomas LaMarre

Thomas Mark Lamarre (born 1959) is a Canadian academic, author, Japanologist and professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.[1]

Education

LaMarre was awarded a bachelor's degree in Biology in 1981 at Georgetown University. He continued his studies in science and the Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II in France, earning a Master's equivalent degree in Oceanology in 1982, and a doctorate equivalent in Oceanology in 1985.[2]

LaMarre then entered a second doctorate program at the University of Chicago, where he earned a master's degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1987. Chicago granted his second doctorate in 1992.[2]

Career

In addition to teaching, LaMarre is the Major Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill.[3] His on-going areas of research encompass "an emphasis on new modes of spectatorship (fan cultures), production (cooperatives and multi-authorship), aesthetics (multiplanar images), narrative (myth and epic) and distribution (globalization)."[2]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Thomas LaMarre, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly six works in ten publications in one language and 600+ library holding.[4]

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  • Can Writing Go on Without a Mind? Orality, Literacy, Ideography, Japanology (1994)
  • Uncovering Heian Japan: an Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription (2000)
  • Project Insider (2000)
  • Impacts of Modernities (2004)
  • Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō on Cinema and "Oriental" Aesthetics (2005)
  • The Anime Machine: a Media Theory of Animation (2009)

Honors

References
  1. https://ealc.uchicago.edu/thomas-lamarre
  2. Répertoire de la recherche publique du Québec, LaMarre, 28 June 2010
  3. McGill, East Asian Studies.
  4. WorldCat Identities: LaMarre, Thomas 1959-
  5. John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, list


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