Tom Looser (B.A. in Anthropology, U.C.S.C.; M.A. and PhD in Anthropology, University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at NYU. His areas of research include Cultural Anthropology and Japanese studies; art, architecture and urban form; new media studies and animation; and critical theory. A senior editor for the journal Mechademia, an editor for Digital Asia, and on the editorial advisory board of ADVA, 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 Boundary 2, Japan Forum, Mechademia, Shingenjitsu, Journal of Pacific Asia, and Cultural Anthropology.

Thomas Looser
Associate Professor
Cultural Anthropology
Japanese Studies
Critial Theory
New Media and Animation
Art, Architecture and Urban Form
Ph.D. 1999, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Books
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Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series (March 31, 2010)
Selected Articles
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“Superflat Worlds.”2017 (forthcoming)Chapter in volume titled Introduction to Japanese Popular Culture, Routledge.
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“Private Cities.”2017 (forthcoming)Chapter in volume on Anthropology of the City, Seth Low ed., Routledge
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Introduction and “Real Imaginary Diasporas.”Vol. 1 No. 3, March, 2017In Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures Journal, Special Issue on Islands and Islanding; Issue co-editor
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“Media, Mediation and Crisis: the Case for Media Studies as (Post-Cultural) Anthropology”Duke U. Press. 2017Book chapter (History of Japanese Media Studies)
Contact Information
Thomas Looser
Associate Professor tom.looser@nyu.edu 19 University Place, Rm 503New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-7619
Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:00-3:00 p.m (online and in-person)