CTL Continuing & Contract Faculty
This directory includes both Continuing and Contract faculty in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, spanning all three graduate programs.
- Curriculum & Pedagogy (C&P)
- Language & Literacies Education (LLE)
- Master of Teaching (MT)
Continuing faculty in the C&P and LLE programs are eligible to supervise MA and PhD thesis students. In some cases, Contract faculty may be permitted to supervise MA students. Faculty available for supervision are noted in their profiles below. While supervisors are formally assigned during the admissions committee review, applicants are encouraged to reach out to potential supervisors in advance and name them in their application to support the review process.
Research Areas: Gender, Sexuality, Trans & Black trans studies, abolition and transformative justice, Black feminist thought & critical pedagogies.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Expressive writing; publishing, writing teaching, learning and curriculum development; health and science writing
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Language-education policy and teacher education, linguistic dimensions of systemic racism at school.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Comparative education, peace, and citizenship education. Critical curriculum and pedagogy studies.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Indigenous feminisms, maternal praxis, anti-colonial literacies, resurgent Indigenous literary frameworks, and dismantling racialized, sexualized, and gender-based violence.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Teacher professional learning, teacher education, teacher mentorship, continuing professional learning.
Open to Supervision: MA only
Research Areas: Politics of identity, literacies, and civics in contemporary schooling. Critical literacies, digital literacies, and elementary education.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Science and science teacher education, postcolonial theory in science education, underrepresented youth in STEM, and interdisciplinary approaches to academic learning.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Equity, diversity, inclusion, cultural competency, education leadership, 2SLGBTQ+ issues, Teacher performance evaluation.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: AI in Education, Immersive technologies, Computer-supported Collaborative Learning, Education for Sustainable Development, Knowledge Building, Cross-cultural Collaboration, Learning Analytics.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Financial education, numeracy, citizenship, STEM, entrepreneurship.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Teacher education and teacher preparation. Teaching in urban schools, self-reflective practice.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Karyn Cooper
Research Areas: Sociocultural dimensions of literacy and teacher education, Children's literature, Inclusion, equity, and democratic practice.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Progressive science education pedagogies and the integration of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) across the curriculum.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Angela Easby
Research Areas: Urban Indigenous communities, Indigenous education, Anishinaabemowin revitalization, community-based research design.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Critical pedagogies, race theory, decolonizing methods, anti-racism, Islam, hip hop, human rights, feminism, narrative strategy, education, youth politics.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Youth and social inequality, lived experiences of global youth, educational policy, community-engaged research, theatre.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Childhood, early childhood education, popular culture, cultural curriculum studies, critical media literacy and teacher education
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Symbolic boundaries, cultural production, identity in education, urban schooling, inequality, sociology of education, curriculum, and pedagogy.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Queer and trans students, teachers, and families, controversies in sex education, gendered and racialized narratives of risk, sexuality, and youth
Open to Supervision: Yes
Research Areas: Effective assessment practice. Critical thinking in learning, how to create classrooms for deep learning through sustained inquiry.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Cognitive continuity in science learning, access and equity in science education, socio-cultural context of science education, Indigenous knowledges.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Verbatim theatre and performed ethnography. Experiences of LGBTQ families.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Educational tech, discourse in collaborative learning, async distance ed, sociocultural supports for knowledge building in science, and multimedia/online tools for teacher development.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Anti-racism and anti-colonialism in K–12 and teacher education, critical whiteness and white supremacy, and critical views on neoliberalism in education.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Language, intercultural communication, and employment outcomes for internationally educated professionals.
Open to Supervision: No
Research Areas: Desettling colonial approaches to research methodology, co-designing justice-oriented science curricula with youth and teachers, youth and identity.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Self-reporting, scale design, treatment evaluation, alternative assessments, and measurement-driven education reform.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Educational linguistic, Linguistic diversity, Education rights of linguistic minorities, metacognition, migration & mobilities, Inclusive education.
Open to Supervision: TBA
David Levine
Research Areas: Shakespeare, cultural/historical literacy, film, schooling, modernization, demographics, family, popular culture, and historiography in the social and educational history of England.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Linguistic social representation among language learners as well as the inclusion of linguistic and cultural diversity in teaching practices in primary and secondary school.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Designs immersive tech to support complex learning, using mixed-methods to link user experience—physiological and behavioral—to learning outcomes.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Education technology, collaborative learning, online learning.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Connections between schooling and society, with a focus on lifelong engagement in and with music and the arts.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Support for struggling students and ELLs in math education, teaching of argumentation, and use of think-alouds and self-talk in math learning.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Whole Child Education, The Holistic Curriculum, The Contemplative Practitioner, Education and the Soul, and Love and Compassion: Exploring their Role in Education.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Urban education, global citizenship and sustainability education. Global citizenship education, culturally responsive pedagogy and sustainability education.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: queer-inclusive and -affirming language education, linguistic dissociation
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Gender, colonialism, and imperialism in the British Empire; popular history writing in 19th–20th c. Ontario; gender, culture, and imperial identity.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Teacher development and education reform in developing, Muslim, and post-communist contexts; global education, international and comparative curriculum studies/education.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Curricular and pedagogical approaches to disrupt anti-Black and settler colonial frames; rethinking place-based, climate, and environmental education with young children.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Linguistic/cultural diversity in language education; cognitive, emotional, social factors; L2 teaching, teacher development, curriculum design, plurilingualism, and mediation.
Open to Supervision: No
Research Areas: L2 learning, curriculum design, teacher education, and support for multilingual K–12/higher ed learners via translanguaging and multiliteracies pedagogies.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Relationships between language, race, and work in education, focusing on accent as a site of racialization, labor, and resistance to oppressive language norms.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Decolonization in education; critical study of political and colonial constructions of childhood; teaching in child and youth studies, anti-discriminatory and teacher education.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, French as a Second Language (FSL) education (student confidence & proficiency) FSL teacher practice.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Math knowledge in pre-service teachers, math anxiety, STEM gender gap, and teaching efficacy, with recent work on race and gender intersectionality in math performance.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Spanish language learning, second language acquisition, vocabulary teaching and learning and vocabulary testing.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Critical curriculum studies and information justice, focusing on how knowledge is created, preserved, and shared in formal and non-formal learning environments.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Knowledge Building and global innovation to transform schools for knowledge creation; developing models, pedagogies, and technologies for inclusive knowledge societies.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Practitioner research, critical literacy, and New Literacy Studies; how educators build curriculum and pedagogy from students’ diverse cultures, languages, and literacy practices.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Collaborative and collective inquiry models in K–12 science; exploring technology-enhanced learning and Knowledge Community and Inquiry approaches.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Focus on elementary and adolescent literacy, socio-cultural issues in writing, multiliteracies, rural literacies, and northern Indigenous education through the NOW Play project.
Open to Supervision: No
Research Areas: Focus on L2/L3 linguistic competence (esp. pronunciation), language assessment, evidence-based teaching, and bilingual children's literacy development.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Teacher professional learning, curriculum and program development, assessment, arts and equity education; exploring pedagogies of being, becoming, and belonging.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Teaching and learning in Indigenous contexts; Land-centered approaches to language, literacy, and curriculum; integrating Indigenous perspectives across levels and learner groups.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Poststructuralism, critical theory, ethics, converging literacies, curriculum theory, philosophy of education, sociocultural studies, technology, and media.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Language and literacy development, English as an additional language, English writing development, Educational provisions in the Caribbean, Home language and literacy environments.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Focus on democratic citizenship, controversial issues, critical literacy, epistemic reflexivity, decolonizing knowledge, practitioner inquiry, and school-university partnerships in teacher education.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Research Areas: Multilingual and second language writing, transnational rhetorics, digital/AI literacy, and international students’ literacy practices in higher education.
Open to Supervision: TBA
