Editing Marshall McLuhan (section)

=== Early career, marriage, and doctorate ===
[[File:Marshall McLuhan at Cambridge University.jpg|right|thumb|upright|McLuhan at Cambridge, {{Circa|1940}}]]
Unable to find a suitable job in Canada, he went to the United States to take a job as a teaching assistant at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] for the 1936–37 academic year.{{sfn|Gordon|1997|pp=69–70}} From 1937 to 1944, he taught English at [[Saint Louis University]] (with an interruption from 1939 to 1940 when he returned to Cambridge). There he taught courses on [[Shakespeare]],<ref>Marchand, p. 48</ref> eventually tutoring and befriending [[Walter J. Ong]], who would write his doctoral dissertation on a topic that McLuhan had called to his attention, as well as become a well-known authority on communication and technology.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Farrell |first=Thomas J. |date=January 2023 |title=Walter Ong, Marshall McLuhan, and Eric McLuhan's Two Books on Menippean Satire |url= |journal=ETC: A Review of General Semantics |volume=80 |issue=1 |pages=15, 18 |via=EBSCO}}</ref>

McLuhan met Corinne Lewis in St. Louis,<ref>{{cite news |last=Fitterman |first=Lisa |date=April 19, 2008 |title=She Was Marshall McLuhan's Great Love Ardent Defender, Supporter and Critic |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080419.OBMCLUHAN19//TPStory/Obituaries |url-status=dead |location=Toronto |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205144146/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080419.OBMCLUHAN19/TPStory/Obituaries |archive-date=December 5, 2008 |access-date=June 29, 2008}}</ref> a teacher and aspiring actress from [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]], Texas, whom he married on August 4, 1939. They spent 1939–40 in Cambridge, where he completed his master's degree (awarded in January 1940){{sfn|Gordon|1997|p=94}} and began to work on his doctoral dissertation on [[Thomas Nashe]] and the verbal arts. While the McLuhans were in England, [[World War II]] had erupted in Europe. For this reason, he obtained permission to complete and submit his dissertation from the United States, without having to return to Cambridge for an oral defence. In 1940, the McLuhans returned to Saint Louis University, where they started a family as he continued teaching. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in December 1943.{{sfn|Gordon|1997|p=115}}

He next taught at [[Assumption University (Windsor)|Assumption College]] in [[Windsor, Ontario|Windsor]], Ontario, from 1944 to 1946, then moved to [[Toronto]] in 1946 where he joined the faculty of [[University of St. Michael's College|St. Michael's College]], a Catholic college of the [[University of Toronto]], where [[Hugh Kenner]] would be one of his students. Canadian economist and communications scholar [[Harold Innis]] was a university colleague who had a strong influence on his work. McLuhan wrote in 1964: "I am pleased to think of my own book ''[[The Gutenberg Galaxy]]'' as a footnote to the observations of Innis on the subject of the psychic and social consequences, first of writing then of printing."<ref>McLuhan, Marshall. [1964] 2005. ''Marshall McLuhan Unbound.'' Corte Madera, CA : [[Gingko Library|Gingko]]. v. 8, p. 8.

This is a reprint of McLuhan's introduction to the 1964 edition of Innis's book ''[[The Bias of Communication]]'' first published in 1951.</ref> Tom Cooper's ''Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan'' explores the relationship of Innis and McLuhan in depth.<ref>Cooper, Tom. 2025. Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thoughts of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan. Brewster, MA : [[Connected Education|Connected Editions]]. pp. 10 ff.</ref>