Summary of qualifications
Teaching experience
1997-present. Seminars and courses, Faculty of Information
Studies, University of Toronto.
1997-present. Director, McLuhan Program International,
Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
1996-present. Harris Institute for the Arts, Toronto.
1980-95 President, McLuhan and Davies Communications, Inc.,
giving professional development courses and seminars for managers and persons
in the professions (business and science-related such as engineering, pharmaceutical
industry) and government (local, provincial, and federal) on writing, editing,
communication techniques. Clients across Canada and in the US.
1989-90 Course Director, York University, Humanities 1920.06.
1981-90 Communication, T.A., York University (Hum. 1920.06)
1979-80 Communication, Film, Advertising, Sociology of Media:Dawson
College, Montreal
1978-9 Communication, media and criticism, training of
perception:Dawson College, Montreal, and Ontario College of Art, Toronto
1975-7 During residence work for M. A., Ph. D., at University
of Dallas; taught several informal English seminars.
1973-5 Media, training of critical awareness, sociology
of art: Ontario College of Art.
1972-3 Communication, media and criticism, training of
perception:Fanshawe College, London, Ontario.
1970-2 Cross-appointed to the English Department, and
the Communication Department: Visiting Scholar at Wisconsin State University
at Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
1968-9 Taught "Effects of Television" and of other media,
English, speed-reading, and served as T. A., Fordham University, Bronx,
N. Y.
1965-8 High-speed reading techniques: Evelyn
Wood Institutes of Reading Dynamics, Toronto): instructor, then chief of
instructional staff. Toronto and New York.
Major Publications
1999 Editor, The Medium and the Light, a
collection of the writings of Marshall McLuhan on the subject of religion
and communications. Stoddart. Spring, 1999.
1998 The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake. U Toronto
Press.
1998 Electric Language: Understanding the Present,
essays on media and society. Stoddart, Spring, 1998
1995-8 Cynic Satire [or Menippean Satire], a college-level
text. University of Toronto Press, 1999(?)
1995- "CD as Classroom": revision and updating
of City as Classroom for CD-users at colleges and universities. Currently
underway. Also a project, Media Trials, for teaching—on the internet—the
effects of media.
1994-5 Consulting Editor, CD-ROM by Southam/Voyager on
Marshall McLuhan. Released in 1996 as Understanding McLuhan
1993-4 Co-editor, Who Was Marshall McLuhan?, by
H. J. B. Nevitt and Maurice R. McLuhan. Comprehensivist Publications, 1994;Stoddart,1995
1992-4 Co-Editor, Essential McLuhan. Stoddart, 1995.
1991-present. Editor and writer, McLuhan Studies (academic
journal).
1990-present. Assoc. Editor, Journal of Social and Biological
Structures
1988 Co-author, Laws of Media: The New Science (U Toronto
Press).
1981-1982 Co-author/designer of text/workbook, Effective
Thinking and Writing (MDC Press, Toronto)
1977 Co-author, City as Classroom, a college text for
media study.
1968-70 Editor, The Dew-Line Newsletter, Human
Development Corporation, New York.
1965-8 Contributing Editor, Monday Morning magazine (Toronto).
1997, Honourary Professor, University of Buenos Aires.
Education
Ph. D. 1982, English Literature (Minor: Theology): University
of Dallas
M. A. 1980, English Literature: University of Dallas
B. Sc. 1972, Communication: Wisconsin State University
Excellent references and additional details on request