KMDI - Knowledge Media Design Institute

Knowledge media are building blocks of a knowledge society

KMDI
University of Toronto
Bahen Centre for IT
40 St. George Street
7th Floor
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5S 2E4

p/f: 416-978-KMDI (5634)

FACULTY
	Derrick de Kerckhove (Ph.D.) Director, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology Professor, Department of French Email: d.dekerckhove@utoronto.ca Web: http://www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca/derrickdekerckhove.htm
Biography Derrick de Kerckhove, Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology since 1983, is a Full Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed at the Faculty of Information Studies and the Knowledge Media Design Institute. He received his Ph.D. in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto in 1975 and a Doctorat du 3e cycle in the Sociology of Art from the University of Tours (France) in 1979. He was an associate of the Centre for Culture and Technology from 1972 to 1980 and worked with Marshall McLuhan for over ten years as translator, assistant and co-author. He has worked on two collections of essays on McLuhan, culture, technology and biology, namely Understanding 1984 (UNESCO, 1984) and McLuhan e la metamorfosi dell'uomo (Bulzoni, 1984).