Professional Communication

Biography:

Dr. Carolyn Meyer joined Ryerson’s Department of Professional Communication as an Assistant Professor in 2005.

Outside Ryerson, she has taught English and professional communication at the University of Toronto, Seneca College, George Brown College, and Mount Allison University and has presented a range of courses and onsite workshops in professional communication at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. She is the recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Toronto.

Carolyn came to the Department of Professional Communication with a Ph.D. in English from McMaster University, where she also held an SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship.

She is the co-author and editor of the Prentice Hall Canada textbook The Reader: Contemporary Essays and Writing Strategies (2001) and the author of the Oxford University Press publication Communicating for Results: A Canadian Student’s Guide (2007), a 450-page college-level professional communications textbook   Her critical writings on contemporary poetry and Irish literature have appeared in The Dictionary of Literary Biography and Critical Essays on Seamus Heaney.

Carolyn’s research interests include risk communication and corporate communications, with a special emphasis on computer-mediated communication. She has delivered presentations on e-mail flaming, politeness theory, media relations, and teaching strategies at Association for Business Communication conferences. She has made guest appearances on television and national radio as a commentator on literacy and writing issues and interviews with her have appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Montreal Gazette, and other publications.