herbert marshall mc luhan
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Herbert Marshall McLuhan
July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980
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Herbert Marshall
• Herbert was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar, a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist.
• McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory.
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Background Information • McLuhan was born in
Edmonton, Alberta, on July 21, 1911 to Methodist parents Elsie Naomi (née Hall) and Herbert Ernest McLuhan.
• McLuhan's father enlisted in the Canadian army when his business failed and World War I and contracted influenza
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The Marshall - McLuhan Family
• "Marshall" was a family name: his maternal grandmother's surname.
• His mother was a Baptist schoolteacher who later in life became an actress.
• His father had a real estate business in Edmonton
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More Background Info.
• After Herbert's discharge from the army in 1915, the McLuhan family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba,
• Marshall went to school attending Kelvin Technical High School before enrolling in the University of Manitoba in 1928
• McLuhan earned a BA (1933)—winning a University Gold Medal in Arts and Sciences—and MA (1934) in English from the University of Manitoba
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Education
• He had always wanted to pursue graduate studies in England and McLuhan was accepted for enrollment at the University of Cambridge.
• He entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge in the Fall of 1934, where he studied under I. A. Richards and F. R. Leavis, and was influenced by New Criticism
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Education Continued
• These studies formed an important precursor to his later ideas on technological forms
• He received his bachelor's degree from Cambridge in 1936 and began graduate work.
• While studying the trivium at Cambridge he took the first steps toward his eventual conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1937, founded on his reading of G. K. Chesterton.
• After consulting with a minister, his father accepted the decision to convert, despite his mother’s objections
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Religion
• McLuhan was devout throughout his life, but his religion remained a private matter.
• He had a lifelong interest in the number three—the trivium, the Trinity—and sometimes said that the Virgin Mary provided intellectual guidance for him
• For the rest of his career he taught in Roman Catholic institutions of higher education.
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Teaching Career• From 1937 to 1944
he taught English at Saint Louis University
• At Saint Louis he tutored and befriended Walter J. Ong, S.J. (1912–2003)
• He was awarded a Ph.D. in December 1943
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Teaching Career Continued
• From 1944 to 1946 McLuhan taught at Assumption College in Windsor, Ontario.
• Moving to Toronto in 1946, McLuhan joined the faculty of St. Michael's College, a Catholic college of the University of Toronto
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Advancements In His Field
• In the early 1950s, McLuhan began the Communication and Culture seminars, funded by the Ford Foundation, at the University of Toronto.
• His reputation grew, and the University of Toronto, desperate to keep him, created the Centre for Culture and Technology in 1963.
• McLuhan was named to the Albert Schweitzer Chair in Humanities at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York, for one year (1967–68).
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Sickness and Recovery
• While at Fordham, McLuhan was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor; it was treated successfully.
• He returned to Toronto where for the rest of his life, he worked at the University of Toronto and lived in Wychwood Park.
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Interesting Information• Marshall and Corinne
McLuhan had six children: Eric, twins Mary and Teresa, Stephanie, Elizabeth and Michael.
• The demanding costs of supporting a large family eventually drove McLuhan to advertising work and consulting and speaking seminars for large corporations such as IBM and AT&T.
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Stroke, Followed By Death• The University of Toronto's
School of Graduate Studies attempted to close his research centre shortly after the stroke but was stopped by substantial protests
• The most famous protestor was Woody Allen, (McLuhan had a cameo role in Allen's Oscar-winning motion picture Annie Hall ).
• Mcluhan never fully recovered from the stroke and died in his sleep on December 31, 1980.
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Works Cited
“MarshallMcLuhan.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan. April, 2010.
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• The End!