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Eric McLuhan was born in 1941 to Marshall and Corinne McLuhan. He received a B.Sc. in Communications from Wisconsin State University in 1972 and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Dallas in 1982.
For over 40 years, McLuhan has taught at many colleges and universities throughout the United States, Canada and abroad. In 1980, with Roger Davies, McLuhan developed the Thinking and Writing workshops, and together they founded McLuhan and Davies Communications Inc., to help business professionals with their writing and editing skills.\
He has authored many books, including The City as Classroom (1977, with Marshall McLuhan and Kathryn Hutchon); Laws of Media (1988, with Marshall McLuhan); The Role of Thunder in Finnegan's Wake (1997); Electric Language (1998); Theories of Communication (2011); and Media and Formal Cause (2011).
He has also edited several collections of Marshall McLuhan's work, including The Book of Probes (2011); Marshall McLuhan Unbound (2005, with Terrence Gordon); The Medium and the Light (2010); and Essential McLuhan (1997, with Frank Zingrone).
His research and thinking has also been widely published in anthologies, magazines and journals since 1964.
- Adapted from ericmcluhan.com