Thomas D. Looser

Adjunct Associate Professor

Office Hours: Wed. 4:15 – 5:15
Teaching Hours: Wed 2:10-4:00pm
Email: tdl2107@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Anthropology, University of Chicago (’99)
MA: Anthropology, University of Chicago (’87)
BA: Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz (’79)

Classes

GU4277 Japanese Anime & Beyond

Research Interests

Thomas Looser received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from University of Chicago in 1999. He has taught at NYU and at McGill University. In 2013-2014, he was a recipient of a Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Humanites at NYU. A senior editor for the journal Mechademia, he is the author of Visioning Eternity: Aesthetics, Politics, and History in the Early Modern Noh Theater, and has published articles in a variety of venues including Japan Forum, Mechademia, Shingenjitsu, Journal of Pacific Asia, and Cultural Anthropology. His interests include Cultural Anthropology, Japanese Studies, Critical Theory, New Media and Animation, Art, Architecture and the Urban Form.

Selected Publications

Visioning Eternity: Aesthetics, Politics, and History in the Early Modern Noh Theater

Cornell University – Cornell East Asia Series (March 31, 2010)

Introduction and “Real Imaginary Diasporas.” Vol. 1 No. 3, March, 2017. (Issue co-editor) Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures Journal, Special Issue on Islands and Islanding