David Linton

Title

Emeritus Professor of Communication and Media Arts

Department

Communication and Media Arts

About

David Linton was on the faculty of MMC for more than twenty years and held the rank of Emeritus Professor of Communications Arts. His research interests and publications were wide-ranging, including such topics as the media environment of Elizabethan England, the reading behavior of the Virgin Mary, the history of the Luddite movement, and the formation of literary and media canons. David passed away on December 1, 2024.

Read more about David’s legacy.

Degree(s)

B.S., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
M.Ed., Indiana University of Pennsylvania 
Ph.D., New York University

Recent Work

Publications

“Reading the Boomer’s Reading,” Baby Boomers and Popular Culture, Ed. Brian Cogan and Thom Gencarelli, Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2015.

“McLuhan’s Playboy, Playboy’s McLuhan,” Finding McLuhan: The Mind, The Man, The Message, Ed. Jaquelin McLeod Rogers, Regina, Canada: U of Regina P., 2015.

“On Being Read To,” ETC., April 2015.

 “Menstruation’s Cultural History: a review of Menstruation and the female Body in Early Modern England,” Women’s Reproductive Health (in press).

“From the President’s Desk,” regular column in New York Academe, a quarterly publication.