My teaching, research, and supervisions are in the area of media theory. Through this portal I have examined the work of media theory founders Marshall McLuhan and Edmund Carpenter, as well as, more broadly, Italian Futurism, Cold War cultural politics, sexuality and nationalism, media anthropology, and West Coast modern architecture. My most recent book, Mediatic Shakespeare: The Dynamics of Orality, Script, and Print in the Plays and Poems, was published by UTP in 2025. The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter: Anthropology Upside Down (MQUP), received the McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book of 2024 from the Media Ecology Association, and Honorable Mention for the Book Award in Museum Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association in 2025. Remediating McLuhan, published by the University of Amsterdam Press in 2016, was republished by Routledge in 2025. My first book, McLuhan in Space (UTP 2002), will be published in translation by the Communication University Press (Beijing) in 2026. Co-founder of the Bachelor of Media Studies Program, I regularly teach ENGL 232, “Media Anthropology,” and most recently co-taught a graduate course on “Media and Misinformation.” My latest doctoral supervisions were on lyric poetry from print to Web 2.0 (UBC) and a co-supervision on the ontology of sound (TU Delft NL). In 2025, I was appointed Distinguished Research Fellow of the Centre for AI, Society, and Critique (Berlin Germany: aisocietycritique.org).
