- Dr. Noa Yaari
- Noa Yaari holds a PhD in History from York University, where she examined how historians combine words and images in the same argument to describe and explain the past. In this interdisciplinary project, she employed Linguistics, Literary Criticism, and Visual Studies to develop a new framework for verbal-visual rhetoric, which she termed Multiform Grammar. Her […]
- Katherine Anderson
- Katherine is a PhD candidate in Language and Literacies Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), where her research investigates how engineering students who use English as an Additional Language adapt to professional writing genres and practices. She has over 20 years of experience teaching English for Academic Purposes and professional communication. […]
- Dr. Marvin Lam
- Marvin Lam holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and Language Technology. He brings over a decade of experience in teaching and research across the fields of Language and Communication, Discourse Studies, English for Academic and Specific Purposes, and Linguistics. In addition to his academic work, Marvin has served as […]
- Zhen Wang
- Zhen Wang is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her SSHRC-funded dissertation examines how risks in the financial market have evolved in the post-2008 era through the behaviors of financial institutions and their interactions with (de)regulation. Zhen holds a BS in Accounting and Finance from Boston University and worked as a tax […]
- Dr. Danielle Martak
- Danielle completed a SSHRC-funded PhD in English & Cultural Studies (with a specialization in Critical Theory), a SSHRC-funded MA in Cultural Studies & Critical Theory, and an Honours BA in English & Cultural Studies at McMaster University. Danielle’s research explores discourses of well-being, with a focus on their relationships with economic trends. At GCAC, Danielle […]
- Marissa Herzig
- Marissa Herzig is an English PhD candidate at the University of Toronto whose research focuses on the nonhuman in Jewish folklore. Her SSHRC-funded dissertation examines retellings of the golem from the lens of disability studies, critical race theory, and gender and sexuality studies. Marissa is a resident Junior Fellow at Massey College and a part […]
- Anna Butler-Koo
- Anna is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Her SSHRC-funded dissertation considers how diasporic Asian literatures of Turtle Island articulate and respond to climate crisis. Anna holds a BA in English and History, and an MA in English with a collaborative specialization in Diaspora and Transnational Studies. At […]
- William Kroeger
- Bill Kroeger grew up in lower Manhattan, among diverse cultures and voices. A former philosophy major, schoolteacher, and student of ecocritical Shakespeares, his PhD thesis at the University of Toronto focuses on narratives of ecology and subjectivity. Bill is intrigued with how people write and communicate about ecology and climate crisis: the genres they inhabit, […]
- Rachel Lebovic
- Rachel Lebovic is a PhD student in the Department of English. She holds a BA in Theatre and Drama studies and worked as an actor before returning to UofT to get her MA in English. She has six years of experience as an ESL teacher and teaches the Academic Conversation Skills course at the GCAC.
- Noah Khan
- Noah Khan is a PhD student in the department of Social Justice Education within OISE at University of Toronto. Noah is a CGS-D Scholar, Massey College Junior Fellow, Sawyer Seminar Graduate Fellow, Reach Alliance Researcher, William Pakenham Fellow, and member of the Ontario College of Teachers. His research is situated within phenomenology of technology, examining […]