Doug Mann
Professor of Media Studies and Sociology, University of Western Ontario and King's College; author.
Last Contribution:
An Election is No Time to Talk About Issues
Contributor Biography
Doug Mann is adjunct professor in the faculty of information and media studies at the University of Western Ontario, and will be teaching sociology at King's College in London, Ontario, for the Fall/Winter term of 2010. He specializes in popular culture, culture studies, technology and communications theory, science fiction, comics, and philosophy, and his work has appeared in Dialogue: The Canadian Philosophical Review, The Ottawa Citizen, The Calgary Herald, Saturday Night, and many other publications.
The second edition of Mann's book Understanding Society: A Survey of Modern Social Theory (Oxford University Press) was published in September 2010 and is the only major text on modern social theory in print in Canada. He is also working on essays that will interpret comics and graphic novels in philosophical and political terms in connection with the lectures that he is currently writing.
