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Thomas Lamarre

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Thomas Mark LaMarre (born 1959) is a Canadian academic, author, Japanologist and member of the faculty of McGill University in Montreal.[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.[1]

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.[1]

Career

In addition to teaching, LaMarre is the Major Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill.[2] 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)."[1]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Thomas LaMarre, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 6 works in 10 publications in 1 language and 600+ library holding.[3]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
  • 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. ^ a b c d Répertoire de la recherche publique du Québec, LaMarre, 28 June 2010
  2. ^ McGill, East Asian Studies.
  3. ^ WorldCat Identities: LaMarre, Thomas 1959-
  4. ^ John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, list


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