Thomas Mark LaMarre is a Canadian

Canada

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 academic, author, Japanologist and member of the faculty of McGill University

McGill University

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 in Montreal.

Education

LaMarre was awarded a Bachelor's degree in Biology in 1981 at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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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.

LaMarre then entered a second doctorate program at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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, where he earned a Master's degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations

EALC

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 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 6 works in 10 publications in 1 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)