Thomas Lamarre

Thomas Lamarre ( born October 26, 1959) is an American communications scholar and Japanese studies.

Career

Lamarre studied biology, French literature and Oceanology at Georgetown University in Washington DC and at the Université d' Aix -Marseille. Later he studied East Asian Language and Culture at the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate. Since 2007 he is Professor of East Asian Studies and Art History and Communications at McGill University.

He was also an author of several books and articles on Japanese culture and animation.

Writings

• Science, History, and Culture in the Late Meiji Period in New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan. Helen Hardacre, E. J. Brill, 1997.
• The Order of the Senses: Poetry, Calligraphy, and Cosmology in Heian Japan. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
• Unstating the Classical Moment: The Logic of Forms and Forces in Heian Japan in The Classical Moment: Views From Seven Literatures. Gail Holst - Warhalst and David McCann, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999, pp. 75-97.
• Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
• Classical Literature in Postwar Japan in The Encyclopedia of Japanese Culture. Sandra Buckley, Routledge, 2001.
• Impacts of Modernities ( with Kang Nae -hui ) in Special Issue of Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory. , 2002.
• Introduction: Impacts of Modernities in Impacts of Modernities. Thomas Lamarre and Kang Nae -hui, University of Hong Kong Press, 2003, pp. 1-35.
• Ritual Matters ( with Kenneth Dean ) in Impacts of Modernities. Thomas Lamarre and Kang Nae -hui, University of Hong Kong Press, 2003, pp. 255-292.
• Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro on Cinema and "Oriental" Aesthetics. Thomas Lamarre, Center for Japanese Studies University of Mic, 2005.
• The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation. Thomas Lamarre, Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2009.