Rachael is an Associate Professor (teaching stream) in the Graduate Cen​tre for Academic Communica​​tion, wher​e she teaches both academic writing and speaking. Before joining the University of Toronto, she worked as an editor at Oxford University Press in Toronto. She has a PhD in philosophy from the New School for Social Research and a BA in political science from the University of British Columbia.

Rachael has a blog, Explorations of Style, which discusses a wide range of topics associated with graduate writing. Her forthcoming book, Thriving as a Graduate Writer (University of Michigan Press, 2023), offers principles, strategies, and habits for effective academic writing. Her next project concerns the way graduate writing groups use sociality to support graduate writers.