Faculty Member, Communication
About
I am an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Grand Valley State University. I currently serve as Editor of the journal Explorations in Media Ecology, and am Past-Chair of the Semiotics and Communication Division of the National Communication Association. I am a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, and currently serve on the Board of Directors for both the Media Ecology Association and the Institute of General Semantics. My books include Selfhood and Authenticity (SUNY Press), the forthcoming book, Sources of Significance: Worldly Rejuvenation and Neo-Stoic Heroism (Purdue University Press), and the forthcoming edited collection: Valuation and Media Ecology: Ethics, Morals, and Laws (Hampton Press).
My own work is a multi-disciplinary integration of, roughly, five scholarly traditions: dramatistic rhetoric (Kenneth Burke, Erving Goffman, and, Ernest Becker), existential phenomenology (Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau Ponty, early Mikhail M. Bakhtin as well as John Stewart, Drew Leder, and, Calvin O. Schrag), interactional semiotics (Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Walker Percy, and, Anthony Wilden), humanistic communication theory, (Susanne K. Langer, John Dewey, Martin Buber, and, Lee Thayer), and finally, the New York, St. Louis & Toronto schools of media ecology (Marshall McLuhan, Walter J. Ong, Eric Havelock, Neil Postman, and David Olson).
I also am a juggler and I occasionally post rants and min-lectures on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Professoranton
Contact Information
Corey Anton
School of Communications
1 Campus Drive, 266 LSH
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401-9403
O (616) 331-3321
F (616) 331-2700
