Thomas LaMarre

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Thomas Mark Lamarre (born 1959) is an American-Canadian academic, author, Japanologist and professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies. [1]

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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. [2]

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. [2]

Career

In addition to teaching, LaMarre is the Major Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill. [3] 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)." [2]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Thomas LaMarre, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly six works in ten publications in one language and 600+ library holding. [4]

Honors

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References

  1. "Thomas Lamarre | Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations".
  2. 1 2 3 Répertoire de la recherche publique du Québec, LaMarre, 28 June 2010
  3. McGill, East Asian Studies.
  4. WorldCat Identities: LaMarre, Thomas 1959-
  5. John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, list