Lance Strate is Professor of Communication and Media Studies and Director of the Professional Studies in New Media program at Fordham University. He also teaches graduate courses in the Media and Professional Communication Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and was the 2015 Harron Family Endowed Chair in Communication at Villanova University.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; and the poetry collection, THUNDER AT DARWIN STATION. He is also the co-editor of several anthologies, including 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, and is also a Past President of the New York State Communication Association, and a former Executive Director of the Institute of General Semantics. He received the New York State Communication Association's John F. Wilson Fellow Award in 1998, in recognition for exceptional scholarship, leadership, and dedication to the field of communication, 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 the current President of Congregation Adas Emuno, a Reform temple in Leonia, New Jersey.Lance Strate has published poetry in POETICA, KRONOSCOPE, ETC, and several anthologies. Translations of his writing have appeared in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Chinese, and Quenya.