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Matt Jones

Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream), Graduate Centre for Academic Communication, University of Toronto; Contract Lecturer, School of Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
EducationPhD Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto MA, English Literature, Concordia University
Memberships/ServicesCanadian Association for Theatre Research Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing Consortium on Graduate Communication

Matt Jones is a scholar of performance studies and communication with expertise in student-centered learning and equity-oriented teaching. His research explores activist performance, archival histories of theatre, and strategies for communication. He sits on the editorial board of Canadian Theatre Review and is a Co-Investigator on Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories of Performance, a project supported by a Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada. Matt’s writing has appeared in SubStance, Performance Research, Theatre Journal, Canadian Theatre Review, and Theatre Research in Canada. His plays include Dracula in a Time of Climate Change, The Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist, and the collective creation Death Clowns in Guantánamo Bay. He was the recipient of a 2022 UTSC Teaching Award from the University of Toronto Scarborough and is currently Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) at the University of Toronto’s Graduate Centre for Academic Communication.

Honours and Awards

  • 2023 SSHRC Partnership Grant. Gatherings Partnership. Principal Investigator: Stephen Johnson. One of 13 Co-Investigators.
  • 2023 Robert G. Lawrence Prize for best paper by an emerging scholar (Canadian Association for Theatre Research).
  • 2022 New Collaborations Grant. Co-Principal Investigator with Krzysztof Krystosiak and Angela Misri. The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University.
  • 2022 UTSC Teaching Award, Unit 1 Course Instructors (University of Toronto Scarborough).