Matt Jones is Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) at the University of Toronto’s Graduate Centre for Academic Communication.

Matt is a scholar of Performance Studies and Communication with expertise in student-centered learning and equity-oriented teaching. His research draws on concepts from Performance Studies to devise strategies to improve graduate students’ communication practices. He was the recipient of a 2022 UTSC Teaching Award from the University of Toronto Scarborough and he 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 journalistic writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Montreal Gazette, This Magazine, Canadian Dimension, and on his blog, Chez le Piment Rouge. 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 is currently writing a book about performance in the deathscapes of the War on Terror. For more information, please visit mattjones.space.