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, work​shops, and its Writing Centre, and designed several of GCAC’s current courses a​​nd workshops. Her development of GCAC is described in a chapter in Supporting Graduate Student Writers: Research, Curriculum & Program Design (University of Michigan Press, 2016).

Jane completed a BA and a BEd at Queen’s University, an MA at the University of Warwick, and a PhD at the University of Toronto. A Senior Fellow of Massey College and a member of the Stratford Festival’s Senate, Jane’s areas of expertise are Shakespeare, classical rhetoric, and oral and written communication. She completed a book in collaboration with Prof. Ursula Franklin, entitled Ursula Franklin Speaks: Thoughts and Afterthoughts, 1986–2012. In 2023, she was awarded the highest honour for teaching at the University of Toronto, the President’s Teaching Award.