Lance Strate is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. He was the 2015 Harron Family Endowed Chair in Communication at Villanova University, and was appointed to the honorary position of Chair Professor at Henan University in China.

He is the author of ECHOES AND REFLECTIONS: ON MEDIA ECOLOGY AS A FIELD OF STUDY; ON THE BINDING BIASES OF TIME AND OTHER ESSAYS ON GENERAL SEMANTICS AND MEDIA ECOLOGY; AMAZING OURSELVES TO DEATH: NEIL POSTMAN'S BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED; THUNDER AT DARWIN STATION; MEDIA ECOLOGY: AN APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN CONDITION; and CONCERNING COMMUNICATION: EPIC QUESTS AND LYRIC EXCURSION WITHIN THE HUMAN LIFEWORLD. He is also the co-editor of several anthologies, including TAKING UP MCLUHAN'S CAUSE: PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIA AND FORMAL CAUSALITY (with Corey Anton and Robert K. Logan); THE MEDIUM IS THE MUSE: CHANNELING MARSHALL MCLUHAN (with Adeena Karasick); KORZYBSKI AND... (with Corey Anton); THE LEGACY OF MCLUHAN (with Edward Wachtel), and two editions of COMMUNICATION AND CYBERSPACE: SOCIAL INTERACTION IN AN ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT (with Ron Jacobson and Stephanie Gibson), and has been the editor of several journals including the GENERAL SEMANTICS BULLETIN, the SPEECH COMMUNICATION ANNUAL, and EXPLORATIONS IN MEDIA ECOLOGY, a journal he founded. Additionally, he was the supervisory editor of the Media Ecology Book Series published by Hampton Press, and currently the editor of the Understanding Media Ecology Book Series for Peter Lang, as well as a partner in NeoPoiesis Press.

One of the founders of the Media Ecology Association, Lance Strate was the MEA's first President, serving in that capacity for over a decade. He is also a Past President of the New York State Communication Association and of the New York Society for General Semantics, and a former Executive Director and current President of the Institute of General Semantics. He received the Media Ecology Association's 2018 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book and their 2013 Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship; the New York State Communication Association's 2019 Neil Postman Mentor Award and their 1998 John F. Wilson Fellow Award in recognition for exceptional scholarship, leadership, and dedication to the field of communication; the Eastern Communication Association's 2019 Distinguished Research Fellow Award; the Global Listening Centre’s 2020 Outstanding Research Award; and Denver Mayor Wellington E. Webb proclaimed "that February 15, 2002 be known as Dr. Lance Strate Day in the City and County of Denver" in honor of the keynote address he gave for the Rocky Mountain Communication Association. He is a Past President of Congregation Adas Emuno, a Reform temple in Leonia, New Jersey.

Lance Strate has published poetry in NEW NOTE POETRY, POETICA, KRONOSCOPE, ETC, and several anthologies. Translations of his writing have appeared in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Mandarin, and Quenya.

My novel The Silk Code won the Locus Award for Best First Novel of 1999. My other science fiction and mystery novels include Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2014), The Plot To Save Socrates (2006; Entertainment Weekly called it "challenging fun"), Unburning Alexandria (2013), and Chronica (2014). The Plot to Save Socrates and The Consciousness Plague are available as audiobooks on Audible. My short stories have been published in Analog, Amazing Stories, Nature, Buzzy Mag, and other leading magazines, and have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards. "The Chronology Protection Case" (Nebula nominee, 1995) was made into a short film by Jay Kensinger, now on Amazon Prime, and was a Finalist in the Movies4Movies Film Festival Summer 2017. A radio play of "The Chronology Protection Case," nominated for the Edgar Award, is available as an audiobook on Audible. My alternate history story about The Beatles, "It's Real Life" (2022), was made into a radio play in 2023, is available as an audiobook on Audible, and was expanded into a novel, published in 2024. (The short story won The Mary Shelley Award fo Outstanding Fiction in 2023.) Nine nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), RealSpace (2003), Cellphone (2004), and New New Media (2009, 2012) have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Arabic, and ten other languages. I co-edited Touching the Face of the Cosmos: On the Intersection of Space Travel and Religion in 2015. My short books McLuhan in an Age of Social Media (2015), Fake News in Real Context (2016), and Cyber War and Peace (2017) are published on Kindle and in paperback and continuously updated. I appear from time to time on MSNBC, CNN, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, NPR, BBC Radio and other TV and radio programs -- I like talking just as much as writing. I'm also a songwriter, and have been in several bands over the years - one (The Other Voices) had two records out on Atlantic Records in 1960s. My 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme (on HappySad Records) was reissued on CD by Beatball/Big Pink Records and on Vivid Records in 2009, and on re-pressed vinyl by Whiplash/Sound of Salvation Records in 2010. In the Fall of 2018, I recorded Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, a new album of my science fiction songs; it was released in early 2020 on Old Bear Records, with vinyl distributed by Light In The Attic Records. I was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Top 10 Academic Twitterers" in 2009. I review television in my Infinite Regress.tv blog. Last but not least: I have a PhD in Media Ecology from New York University and am Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City.