Matt Jones
Assistant Professor The Creative School School of Professional Communication Toronto, Ontario mattjones@torontomu.ca
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Matt Jones' research examines political violence through the dual lenses of performance and communication. Matt holds a Ph.D. from the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto and an MA in English Literature from Concordia University. Matt’s research has rece...
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Bio/Research
Matt Jones' research examines political violence through the dual lenses of performance and communication. Matt holds a Ph.D. from the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto and an MA in English Literature from Concordia University. Matt’s research has received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. His writing has been recognized with prizes from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Recently, he was the recipient of a 2022 University of Toronto Scarborough Teaching Award.
His writing has examined the relationship between performance, communication, militarization, and racism in a range of media, including comics, theatre, live art, photography, digital media and law. He is interested in media theory, political discourse, live performance, and practices of decolonization and resistance.
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His writing has examined the relationship between performance, communication, militarization, and racism in a range of media, including comics, theatre, live art, photography, digital media and law. He is interested in media theory, political discourse, live performance, and practices of decolonization and resistance.
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