W. Terrence Gordon is Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia:state>, Canada and Part-time lecturer in Linguistics at St. Mary's University, Halifax. He is the author of the three titles on McLuhan and the editor of the critical editions of his Understanding Media (2003), McLuhanUnbound (2005), and The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of his Time (2006). His McLuhan for Beginners brought him the invitation from the McLuhan family to write his biography: Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding, critically acclaimed in The New York Times and many other sources. Professor Gordon is also the librettist of a multimedia opera about McLuhan. His Everyman's Joyce is scheduled for release this month.