Professor Lamarre is a scholar of media, cinema and animation, intellectual history and material culture, with projects ranging from the communication networks of 9th century Japan, to silent cinema and the global imaginary, animation technologies, and on television infrastructures and media ecology. 

Professor Fisch's research focuses on the effects of technology, nature, and culture on Japanese society. He is currently developing a project that explores the emergence of what he identifies as “experimental ecologies” that work to contest, recast, and re-conceive disaster infrastructure design in post-3.11 Japan. 

Professor Yuting Dong is a historian of modern Japan and East Asia. She is interested in questions on colonialism, history of labor and expertise, and environmental history. She is also working on a second project that examines the commodification and politicization of air in Japan’s colonial empire.