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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.

Publications

  • Sarin Gas Heartbreak: Theatre and Post-Truth Warfare in Syria
  • Citizen in Exception: Omar Khadr and the Performative Gap in the Law
  • Drunken Language, Elliptical Politics: Caryl Churchill’s Oblique Protest Theatre
  • The Shock and Awe of the Real: Political Performance and the War on Terror
  • Vomiting on New Friends: Charlie Hebdo and the Legacy of Anarchic Black Humor in French Comics
  • Editorial: Performance in an Age of Gross Incompetence
  • Is This Still That? Comedy in the Age of Post-Truth
  • Forced Entertainment? Gamified Surveillance in Theatre Conspiracy’s Foreign Radical
  • Editorial: Post-Truth?
  • Towards a Theatre of Global Empathy: Imagining Otherness in the War on Terror
  • After Kandahar: Canadian Theatre’s Engagement with the War in Afghanistan
  • Gross Incompetence
  • Post-Truth?
  • Bare Life and Disaster Artists
  • Performing Post-Truth: An Interview with Director Ashlie Corcoran
  • Rev. of George Belliveau and Graham W. Lea, eds. Contact! Unload: Military Veterans, Trauma, and Research-Based Theatre. UBC Press, 2020.
  • Rev. of Bharucha, Rustom. Terror and Performance.
  • Rev. of Meerzon, Yana. Performing Exile, Performing Self: Drama, Theatre, Film.
  • Rev. of Williamson, Janice, ed. Omar Khadr, Oh Canada.
  • Is This Still That? An Interview with CBC’s Peter Oldring
  • Rev. of Williamson, Janice, ed. Omar Khadr, Oh Canada
  • Rev. of Williamson, Janice, ed. Omar Khadr, Oh Canada
  • On the Ends and Endings of Protest

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