- Dr. Samantha Jackson
- Samantha is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, at the Graduate Centre for Academic Communication (GCAC) and at the department of Linguistics. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature with Education and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Before joining the University of Toronto, she held postdoctoral […]
- John Hudson
- John Hudson is the GCAC’s Program Coordinator. As first point of contact for graduate students, he helps answer all manner of enquiries, facilitates course/workshop registration and Writing Centre appointments, and maintains GCAC communications such as Instagram. He has a BA (Hons) in English and Film Studies from Northumbria University, previously working at TIFF and The Royal […]
- Dr. Matt Jones
- Matt Jones is Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) at the University of Toronto’s Graduate Centre for Academic Communication (GCAC). Matt is a scholar of Performance Studies and Communication with expertise in student-centered learning and equity-oriented teaching. His research draws on concepts from Performance Studies to devise strategies to improve graduate students’ communication practices. He was the […]
- Dr. Jordana Lobo-Pires
- Jordana is an Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) at the Graduate Centre for Academic Communication (GCAC). She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Toronto, an MA in Communication and Culture from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson), and an MA in English and an Honors BA in English, Biology, and Philosophy from the […]
- Dr. Rachael Cayley
- Rachael is an Associate Professor (teaching stream) in the Graduate Centre for Academic Communication (GCAC); from July 2026 through December 2027, Rachael will be Acting Director of GCAC. Rachael has a PhD in philosophy from the New School for Social Research and a BA in political science from the University of British Columbia. Before joining […]
- Dr. Jane Freeman
- Prof. Jane Freeman is the founding Director of the School of Graduate Studies’ Graduate Centre for Academic Communication (GCAC). She established GCAC’s modular curricula of non-credit courses, workshops, and its Writing Centre, and designed several of GCAC’s current courses and workshops. Her development of GCAC is described in a chapter in Supporting Graduate Student Writers: Research, […]
- Dr. Fiona Coll
- Fiona is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at the Graduate Centre for Academic Communication (GCAC) and at the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education & Practice (ISTEP). Her research interests include nineteenth-century conceptions of the relationship between technology and creativity, the efficacy of collaborative writing processes in the classroom, and the role that affect […]