Phil Rose

Phil Rose (Ph.D. in communication and culture) is a Canadian scholar, teacher, writer and speaker. He has taught at a number of Canadian universities, published in several international academic journals and is editor of the volume Confronting echnopoly: Charting a Course Towards Human Survival (Intellect, 2017). A performing musician, he is also author of the books Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015), Radiohead and the Global Movement for Change: ‘Pragmatism Not Idealism’ (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016) and Radiohead: Music for a Global Future (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). A former president of the Media Ecology Association (MEA), Rose is currently president of the Tomkins Institute, an organization devoted to exploration of the work of the American personality theorist Silvan Tomkins. Rose has sought to demonstrate the general relevance of Tomkins’s affect-script theory to communication and cultural theorists, and his 2016 work represents the first application of Tomkins’s theories to the analysis of musical communication. In 2019, the MEA awarded him its Edmund S. Carpenter Award for Career Achievement in Editing in the Field of Media Ecology.