Lance Strate

Lance Strate is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. He was the 2015 Harron Family Endowed Chair in Communication at Villanova University, and was appointed to the honorary position of Chair Professor at Henan University in China.

He is the author of ECHOES AND REFLECTIONS: ON MEDIA ECOLOGY AS A FIELD OF STUDY; ON THE BINDING BIASES OF TIME AND OTHER ESSAYS ON GENERAL SEMANTICS AND MEDIA ECOLOGY; AMAZING OURSELVES TO DEATH: NEIL POSTMAN'S BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED; THUNDER AT DARWIN STATION; MEDIA ECOLOGY: AN APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN CONDITION; and CONCERNING COMMUNICATION: EPIC QUESTS AND LYRIC EXCURSION WITHIN THE HUMAN LIFEWORLD. He is also the co-editor of several anthologies, including TAKING UP MCLUHAN'S CAUSE: PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIA AND FORMAL CAUSALITY (with Corey Anton and Robert K. Logan); THE MEDIUM IS THE MUSE: CHANNELING MARSHALL MCLUHAN (with Adeena Karasick); KORZYBSKI AND... (with Corey Anton); THE LEGACY OF MCLUHAN (with Edward Wachtel), and two editions of COMMUNICATION AND CYBERSPACE: SOCIAL INTERACTION IN AN ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT (with Ron Jacobson and Stephanie Gibson), and has been the editor of several journals including the GENERAL SEMANTICS BULLETIN, the SPEECH COMMUNICATION ANNUAL, and EXPLORATIONS IN MEDIA ECOLOGY, a journal he founded. Additionally, he was the supervisory editor of the Media Ecology Book Series published by Hampton Press, and currently the editor of the Understanding Media Ecology Book Series for Peter Lang, as well as a partner in NeoPoiesis Press.

One of the founders of the Media Ecology Association, Lance Strate was the MEA's first President, serving in that capacity for over a decade. He is also a Past President of the New York State Communication Association and of the New York Society for General Semantics, and a former Executive Director and current President of the Institute of General Semantics. He received the Media Ecology Association's 2018 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book and their 2013 Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship; the New York State Communication Association's 2019 Neil Postman Mentor Award and their 1998 John F. Wilson Fellow Award in recognition for exceptional scholarship, leadership, and dedication to the field of communication; the Eastern Communication Association's 2019 Distinguished Research Fellow Award; the Global Listening Centre’s 2020 Outstanding Research Award; and Denver Mayor Wellington E. Webb proclaimed "that February 15, 2002 be known as Dr. Lance Strate Day in the City and County of Denver" in honor of the keynote address he gave for the Rocky Mountain Communication Association. He is a Past President of Congregation Adas Emuno, a Reform temple in Leonia, New Jersey.

Lance Strate has published poetry in NEW NOTE POETRY, POETICA, KRONOSCOPE, ETC, and several anthologies. Translations of his writing have appeared in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Mandarin, and Quenya.