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B.W. Powe has been teaching in the English Department since 1995. He is a writer - poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. His influential writings on Marshall McLuhan, Northrop Frye, and Pierre Trudeau have been widely-praised, as have his poetry and novels, including Outage and These Shadows Remain, longlisted for the ReLit Prize. His current research has been into visionary and mystical traditions. He has also been involved in literacy initiatives involving both York University and Frontier College. B.W. Powe is a member of the Graduate School of Film Studies in the Fine Arts Department, a fellow of the McLuhan Centre at the University of Toronto, as well as an honourary member of the High Table at Massey College. He is currently at work founding the McLuhan Initiative for the Study of Literacies at York University as well as the program director of the Creative Writing Program at York University. He writes regularly for the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star, and been featured in the New York Times and on CBC and Bravo.

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Hypertext: "Noise of Time" (CD-Rom), "The Glenn Could Profile", National Archives (Ottawa).

Organization of Events, Program Co-ordinator:Marshall McLuhan: What if He Was Right? York University, 1997; The Trudeau Era, York University, 1999; Living Literacies, York University, Stong College, Frontier College, National Literacy Secretariat, Bravo!TB, CLT, Penguin Books, 2001.

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