Derrick de Kerckhove

Derrick de Kerckhove is Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology at the University of Toronto and worked with Marshall McLuhan for over ten years as translator, assistant and co-author.

A Fellow of the World Economic Forum, de Kerckhvoe was also recently named the Papamarkou Chair in Education and Technology at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He is now involved in plans for a major exhibit on Canada and Modernism at the Cite des sciences et de l’industrie in Paris for 2004.

De Kerckhove received his PhD in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto in 1975 and his Doctorat du 3e cycle in Sociology of Art from the University of Tours (France) in 1979. He editedUnderstanding 1984 and co-edited with Amilcare Iannucci McLuhan e la metamorfosi dell’uomo, two collections of essays on McLuhan, culture, technology and biology. His most recent book is Connected Intelligence.