Marshall McLuhan

Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar, professor of English literature, literary critic, and communications theorist, who is one of the founders of the study of media ecology and is today an honorary guru among technophiles.

Biography

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, McLuhan studied English at the University of Manitoba and

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Edmonton, Alberta - English - University of Manitoba

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Cambridge University. At Cambridge he studied under I.A. Richards and F.R. Leavis, and was influenced by New Criticism. In 1936-37 academic year he taught at the University of Wisconsin. On March 30, 1937, McLuhan culminated what was a slow but total conversion when he was formally received into the Roman Catholic Church. Subsequently, he taught in Roman Catholic institutions of higher education. From 1937 to 1944 he taught English at Saint Louis University. There he taught a young Jesuit student named Walter J. Ong (1912-2003), who would go on to do his Harvard University Ph.D. dissertation in English on a topic that McLuhan had called to his attention, and who would himself also later become a well-known authority on communication media and technology, as did his former teacher and friend McLuhan. On August 4, 1939, McLuhan married Corinne Lewis of Fort Worth, Texas, and they spent 1939-40 at Cambridge University, where he continued to work on his doctoral dissertation on Thomas Nashe and the verbal arts. From 1944 to 1946 McLuhan taught at Assumption College in Windsor, Canada. From 1946 to 1979 he taught at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, where Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) was one of his students. McLuhan also taught at Fordham University one year, when the famed Fordham Experiment took place.

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Cambridge University - I.A. Richards - F.R. Leavis - New Criticism - University of Wisconsin - March 30 - 1937 - 1944 - Saint Louis University - Walter J. Ong - August 4 - 1939 - Thomas Nashe - 1946 - 1979 - St. Michael's College, University of Toronto - Hugh Kenner - Fordham University - Fordham Experiment

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