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)
These faculty members are largely engaged in research and teaching within our department. Those affiliated with the C&P and LLE programs can advise and supervise MA and PhD students.
Applicants are not able to secure a faculty advisor/ supervisor before applying to MA or PhD programs in our department. However, they are encouraged to identify their preferred faculty advisor(s) in the designated section of the online application. This information will be taken into consideration during the admissions committee's review process.
Faculty availability for the 2027 admissions intake has been updated below. You can click on each faculty member's name to learn more about their area of expertise and important research and teaching history.
Qui Alexander
Research Areas: Gender, Sexuality, Trans & Black trans studies, abolition and transformative justice, Black feminist thought & critical pedagogies.
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
Guy Allen
Research Areas: Expressive writing; publishing, writing teaching, learning and curriculum development; health and science writing
Open to Supervision: TBA
Jeff Bale
Research Areas: Language-education policy and teacher education, linguistic dimensions of systemic racism at school.
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
Kathy Bickmore
Research Areas: Comparative education, peace, and citizenship education. Critical curriculum and pedagogy studies.
Not open to supervision.
Jennifer Brant
Research Areas: Indigenous feminisms, maternal praxis, anti-colonial literacies, resurgent Indigenous literary frameworks, and dismantling racialized, sexualized, and gender-based violence.
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
Kathy Broad
Research Areas: Teacher professional learning, teacher education, teacher mentorship, continuing professional learning.
Not open to supervision.
Cassie Brownell
Research Areas: Politics of identity, literacies, and civics in contemporary schooling.Critical literacies, digital literacies, and elementary education.
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
Carol-Ann Burke
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: MA & PhD
Andrew B. Campbell
Research Areas: Equity, diversity, inclusion, cultural competency, education leadership, 2SLGBTQ+ issues, Teacher performance evaluation.
Not open to Supervision.
Lydia Cao
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: MA & PhD
Alex Cavalcante
Research Areas: Financial education, numeracy, citizenship, STEM, entrepreneurship.
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
Anne Marie Chudleigh
Research Areas: Teacher education and teacher preparation. Teaching in urban schools, self-reflective practice.
Not open to supervision.
Karyn Cooper
Research Areas: Sociocultural dimensions of literacy and teacher education, Children's literature, Inclusion, equity, and democratic practice.
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
Michelle Dubek
Research Areas: Progressive science education pedagogies and the integration of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) across the curriculum.
Not open to supervision.
Angela Easby
Research Areas: Urban Indigenous communities, Indigenous education, Anishinaabemowin revitalization, community-based research design.
Not open to supervision.
Sameena Eidoo
Research Areas: Critical race and ethnic studies, Cultural studies, Critical pedagogies, Foresight and futures studies, Global Islam, Narrative and storytelling, Youth cultures and activism.
Open to Supervision: TBA
Kathleen Gallagher
Research Areas: Youth and social inequality, lived experiences of global youth, educational policy, community-engaged research, theatre.
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
Julie C. Garlen
Research Areas: Childhood, early childhood education, popular culture, cultural curriculum studies, critical media literacy and teacher education
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
Rubén Gaztambide-Fernandez
Research Areas: Symbolic boundaries, cultural production, identity in education, urban schooling, inequality, sociology of education, curriculum, and pedagogy.
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
Jen Gilbert
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: MA & PhD
Jim Hewitt
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: MA & PhD
Arlo Kempf
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: MA & PhD
Rishi Krishnamoorthy
Research Areas: Desettling colonial approaches to research methodology, co-designing justice-oriented science curricula with youth and teachers, youth and identity.
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
Tony Lam
Research Areas: Self-reporting, scale design, treatment evaluation, alternative assessments, and measurement-driven education reform.
Open to Supervision: MA only
Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman
Research Areas: Educational linguistic, Linguistic diversity, Education rights of linguistic minorities, metacognition, migration & mobilities, Inclusive education.
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
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.
Not open to supervision.
Marie-Paule Lory
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.
Not open to supervision.
Michelle Lui
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: MA & PhD
Kim MacKinnon
Research Areas: Education technology, collaborative learning, online learning.
Open to Supervision: MA only
Roger Mantie
Research Areas: Connections between schooling and society, with a focus on lifelong engagement in and with music and the arts.
Open to Supervision: PhD only
Cathy Marks Krpan
Research Areas: Effective pedagogies in mathematics education, mathematical reasoning and student discourse, student visualizations and representations of mathematics, diverse learners and student engagement.
Not open to supervision.
Jack Miller
Research Areas: Whole Child Education, The Holistic Curriculum, The Contemplative Practitioner, Education and the Soul, and Love and Compassion: Exploring their Role in Education.
Not open to supervision.
David Montemurro
Research Areas: Urban education, global citizenship and sustainability education. Global citizenship education, culturally responsive pedagogy and sustainability education.
Not open to supervision.
Ashley Moore
Research Areas: queer-inclusive and -affirming language education, linguistic dissociation
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
Cecilia Morgan
Research Areas: Gender, colonialism, and imperialism in the British Empire; popular history writing in 19th–20th c. Ontario; gender, culture, and imperial identity.
Not open to supervision.
Sarfaroz Niyosov
Research Areas: Teacher development and education reform in developing, Muslim, and post-communist contexts; global education, international and comparative curriculum studies/education.
Not open to supervision.
Fikile Nxumalo
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: MA & PhD
Enrica Piccardo
Research Areas: Linguistic/cultural diversity in language education; cognitive, emotional, social factors; L2 teaching, teacher development, curriculum design, plurilingualism, and mediation.
Not open to supervision.
Shakina Rajendram
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: MA & PhD
Vijay Ramjattan
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: MA only
Neil Ramjewan
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
Katherine Rehner
Research Areas: Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, French as a Second Language (FSL) education (student confidence & proficiency) FSL teacher practice.
Open to Supervision: PhD only
Mary Reid
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.
Not open to supervision.
Pablo Robles-Garcia
Research Areas: Spanish language learning, second language acquisition, vocabulary teaching and learning and vocabulary testing.
Open to Supervision: PhD only
Dirk J. Rodricks
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
Marlene Scardamalia
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: MA & PhD
Rob Simon
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: MA & PhD
Jim Slotta
Research Areas: Collaborative and collective inquiry models in K–12 science; exploring technology-enhanced learning and Knowledge Community and Inquiry approaches.
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
Jeff Steele
Research Areas: Focus on L2/L3 linguistic competence (esp. pronunciation), language assessment, evidence-based teaching, and bilingual children's literacy development.
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
Leslie Stewart Rose
Research Areas: Teacher professional learning, curriculum and program development, assessment, arts and equity education; exploring pedagogies of being, becoming, and belonging.
Not open to supervision.
Sandra Styres
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: MA & PhD
Peter Trifonas
Research Areas: Poststructuralism, critical theory, ethics, converging literacies, curriculum theory, philosophy of education, sociocultural studies, technology, and media.
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
Shawna-Kaye Tucker
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: MA & PhD
Angela Vemic
Research Areas: Focus on democratic citizenship, controversial issues, critical literacy, epistemic reflexivity, decolonizing knowledge, practitioner inquiry, and school-university partnerships in teacher education.
Not open to supervision.
Zhaozhe Wang
Research Areas: Multilingual and second language writing, transnational rhetorics, digital/AI literacy, and international students’ literacy practices in higher education.
Open to Supervision: MA & PhD
