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M. Shivaun Corry
Dr M. Shivaun Corry was enticed into the field of media ecology by McLuhan’s puzzling aphorisms and stayed in the field because the beauty of Ong’s mysticism and the logic of Innis’s materialism. As she completed her MA with the help of a prestigious SHHRC scholarship (a program founded by Innis himself in an attempt to decolonize Canadian academe), she came to understand that the tradition of media ecology is both poetic and political. A skilled and passionate educator, Shivaun is the recipient of several teaching awards including the Richard H. Thames Award for excellence in teaching communication and rhetorical studies. Having just finished her Ph.D., Shivaun continues her career as a Turkish belly-dancer which gives her the free-time to volunteer as RhetCanada’s social media co-ordinator and as a dysautonomia awareness advocate (a condition she has battled most of her life). She has published on topics including public apologies, civil religion, the postcolonial philosophy of communication, and the socio-economic changes in her beloved Istanbul. She is currently completing a book on the roots of the American impulse to hermeneutic fundamentalism.