Tom Hare

Tom Hare is William Sauter LaPorte '28 Professor in Regional Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. [ [http://www.princeton.edu/complit/people/display_person.xml?netid=thare&display=Faculty Princeton Comparative Literature - Tom Hare] ]

Originally trained as a Japanologist and spending much of his career at Stanford University, [ [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/fghij/hare_thomas.html Minnesota State University - Tom Hare (relatively old biography)] ] Hare has broken new ground by applying post-structuralist analysis of semiotics and discourse of the body to ancient Egyptian language and culture in his book "ReMembering Osiris: Number, Gender, and the Word in Ancient Egyptian Representational Systems" [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=5mV3tpNb4JwC Google Books - ReMembering Osiris] ] (1999, Stanford), and, most recently, brought speech-act theory and performance studies to bear on Japanese Noh drama in his translation and commentary on Zeami’s "Performance Notes" (2008, Columbia). He has also written on Kūkai and Kamo no Chōmei. [ [http://eastasia.princeton.edu/East-Asian-Studies-Department-at-Princeton/People/Tom-Hare.html Princeton East Asian Studies - Tom Hare] ]

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