Professor Hare had good educational opportunities. He studied at Princeton University, the University of Michigan, Middlebury College, and Tokyo University of Fine Arts. He has been teaching almost invariably at Stanford University. He has also participated in OSP (Stanford University's Overseas Studies Program) and taught in Oxford (fall 1993 - 1994) and in Berlin (fall 1997 - 1998).
Thomas Hare is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Language and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. His specialized areas are 1. Japanese literature in the 15th century, especially emphasizing on rhetoric and stylistics, 2. the influence of Buddhist on Japanese culture, dramatic literature, and dramaturgy, 3. the music of Noh Drama, and 4. cultural studies of Ancient Egypt. He is interested in representational problems of language, particularly in, so called "exotic'' writing systems of Japanese, Chinese, and Egyptian, the discourse of the body in conjunction with these, and questions of the subject's relation to various construction of "the divine''.
Hare has been focusing on 15th century Japanese Noh dramas and treatises written by Zeami Motokiyo, late 12th - early 13th century Japanese essay written by Kamono Chomei, and 9th century Buddhist epistemological work written in Chinese letters by Japanese priest Kukai. One of his publications, "The Distant Isle'' includes collections of essays and translations concerned with 'pre-modern' and modern Japanese language and literature.
He also has a strong interest in representational systems in ancient Egypt, has studied hieroglyphics and temple and tomb relief . His question is how do they illustrate subjectivities of Egyptian, and additionally, in what way have these materials been interpreted or misinterpreted in recent times. His most current book Remembering Osiris is a book that deals with Egyptian constructions of the subject.
Thomas Hare is the author or the coeditor of several books and articles including:
Zeami's Style: The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986.
"Reading Kamo no Chomei.'' (June 1989) Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.
"Reading Writing and Cooking: Kukai's interpretive Strategies'' (May 1990) Journal of Asian Studies.
"Three Plays of the Noh Theater.'' (1994) In Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum; Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective, A Guide for Teaching.
Behind the Distant Isle, Papers in Honor of Robert H. Brower. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Publications Program, Center for Japanese Studies, 1996.
Remembering Osiris: Number, Gender and the Word in Ancient Egyptian Representational Systems. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Visit his home page at Former Link, http://www.stanford.edu/~thare/ (October 2006) for further information
**Thomas Hare's Website is no longer available** (October 2006)
References:
"Thomas Hare - Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae." Stanford University Home Page (January, 1999) http://www.stanford.edu/dept/asianlang/faculty/faccv/Hare_cv.html September 21, 2000.
"Report On The Overseas Studies Program (OSP) Presented To The Senate.''Stanford Home Page. (January, 1997) http://portfolio.stanford.edu/105587 September 21 2000.
"Stanford AL Lit & LIng. Faculty.'' Stanford Home Page. (October, 1998) http://www.stanford.edu/dept/asianlang/faculty/litfac.html September 21, 2000
"CJS Publications: The Distant Isle.'' University of Michigan Gateway. (October 16, 1996) Added, http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/publications/monograph%20links/15.%20The%20Distant%20Isle.htm?pubid=34&series=Monographs (October 2006) September 21, 2000
"WebPals.'' (September 5, 2000)Former Link, http://www.pals.msus.edu/ (October 2006) September 21, 2000.Picture of Tom Harehttp://www.stanford.edu/dept/complit/facultybio.html/tomharebio.html Picture of the book
"Remembering Osiris.'' http://www.stanford.edu/~thare/regypt/presspak.html Picture of the book
Written by: Kozue Takahashi