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Close-up headshot of Carolyn Meyer. She is wearing a patterned black and white top, large textured necklace, and wearing her light blonde hair down with bangs,

Carolyn Meyer

Associate Professor
EducationPhD, McMaster University, MA, University of Toronto, BA (with high distinction), University of Toronto

Biography

Carolyn Meyer, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Professional Communication, a Member of the School of Graduate Studies and former Associate Chair and Undergraduate Program Director. She is an educator and scholar with several decades of teaching and research experience in professional writing, genre studies, rhetoric and composition studies, organizational and technical communication, and communication and technology. Her graduate teaching has focused on grant writing and fundraising (MPC) and risk and crisis communication (MHSc in Nutrition Communication).

Dr. Meyer has taught at Mount Allison University and the University of Toronto, and is the recipient of an excellence in teaching award from the University of Toronto.  She has presented her research internationally and is the author of Communicating for Results (2025, Oxford University Press), a guide to business communication now in its sixth edition and adopted by universities across Canada since 2007. She is a two-term Vice President of the Association for Business Communication.

Dr. Meyer is a recipient of a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship for research on the role of the writers' workshop in Belfast during the Troubles and a SSHRC TMU Internal Grant for research into the impact of new media on language change. 

  • Genre Studies
  • Rhetoric
  • Risk and Crisis Communication (image repair, public apology)
  • Corporate Communication

  • Meyer, C. (2025). Communicating for Results (6th edition). New York/Toronto: Oxford University Press.
  • Meyer, C. (2024). 'Some of you will leave today': A discourse analysis of the 2022 and 2023 Shopify layoff announcements. Paper presented at the Association for Business Communication International Conference.
  • Meyer, C. (2023). 'We let you down today': A discourse analysis of the 2022 Rogers Communication outage crisis response open letters." Paper presented at the Association for Business Communication International Communication.
  • Meyer, C. (2022). Job ads after the Great Resignation: A discourse and framing analysis. Paper presented at the Association for Business Communication International Conference.
  • Meyer, C. (2021). A discursive analysis of CEO climate action Open Letters. Paper presented at the Association for Business Communication Europe Conference.
  • Meyer, C. (2020). A content and framing analysis of COVID-19 pandemic business disruption and closure messages.: Corporate Communication International Conference.
  • Meyer, C. (2018). An analysis of banking, technology and MSP CEO open letters responding to crisis. Paper presented at ABC Spain International Conference.

  • Excellence in Teaching Award (University of Toronto)