My teaching, research, and supervisions are in the area of media theory. In addition to media studies, I have published broadly, on Italian Futurism, Cold War cultural politics, sexuality and nationalism, media anthropology, and West Coast modern architecture. My most recent book, The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter: Anthropology Upside Down, received the McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book of 2024 from the Media Ecology Association, and 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).

My research is in the area of Media Theory, with a special focus on the work of Marshall McLuhan.

• Speechsong: the Gould / Schoenberg Dialogues (Goleta, CA: Punctum Press, 2020)
• Friedman House (San Francisco: ORO P for UBC School of Architecture, 2017)
• Remediating McLuhan (Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2016)
• On the Nature of Media(ed.) (Berkeley and Hamburg: Gingko P, 2016)
• Marinetti Dines with the High Command (Toronto: Guernica, 2014)
• McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography (Toronto: UP, 2002)
• “Canadian Cinema and the Intellectual Milieu,” The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema, ed. W. Straw and J. Marchessault (Oxford UP, 2017)
• “Mediatic Shakespeare,” Shakespeare in Canada (U of Ottawa P, 2016)
• “Anthems and Anthologies,” Anthologizing Canadian Literature, ed. R. Lecker (Waterloo: WLUP, 2015)
• “Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory,” The Oxford Companion of Canadian Literature, ed. C. Sugars (Oxford UP, 2015)
• “In-Corporating the Global Village,” McLuhan’s Global Village Today, ed. C. Birkle (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014)
• “On the 50^thAnniversary of Understanding Media,” Journal of Visual Culture 1 (2014)
• “From Earth City to Global Village: McLuhan, Media, and the Cosmopolis,” Architecture and the Canadian Fabric, ed. R. Windsor-Liscombe (Vancouver: UBC P, 2011)

I am the founder and / or member of the founding committee of a number of innovative teaching initiatives, including the Bachelor in Media Studies Program (principal founder); the Critical Studies in Sexuality Program (founding committee); the School of Journalism (founding Board member); and the International Canadian Studies Centre (founding Director).