Thomas Mark Lamarre (born 1959) is an American-Canadian academic, author,

Japanologist Japanese studies ( Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanes ...

and professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.

Education

LaMarre was awarded a bachelor's degree in Biology in 1981 at

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. 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. Répertoire de la recherche publique du QuébecLaMarre
28 June 2010 LaMarre then entered a second doctorate program at the

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, where he earned a master's degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1987. Chicago granted his second doctorate in 1992.

Career

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

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Thomas LaMarre, OCLC/

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encompasses roughly six works in ten publications in one language and 600+ library holding. * ''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) * ''The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media'' (2018)

Honors

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John Whitney Hall Book Prize The John Whitney Hall Book Prize has been awarded annually since 1994 by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Pioneer Japanese studies scholar John Whitney Hall is commemorated in the name of this prize. The Hall Prize acknowledges an outstandi ...

, 1999.John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, list
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References

Anime and manga critics Historians of Japan Canadian Japanologists Living people 1959 births University of the Mediterranean alumni Academic staff of McGill University {{Japan-hist-stub