Thomas Lamarre

Thomas Mark Lamarre is an author and academic.

Biography

Lamarre was awarded a bachelor's degree in Biology in 1981 at Georgetown University. He continued his studies in science and the University of the Mediterranean 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, where he earned a master's degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1987. Chicago granted his second doctorate in 1992.^{[1][unreliable source?][excessive detail?]} Lamarre taught courses on East Asian studies at McGill University. He later moved to the University of Chicago, where he is a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.^[2]

Accolades

The Association for Asian Studies awarded Lamarre the John Whitney Hall Book Prize in 2002.^[3]

Selected works

• 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)