Professional Communication

Biography:

Dr. Jean Mason is Graduate Program Director of Ryerson’s Master of Professional Communication program. She received her PhD from McGill University in 2000. She joined Ryerson in 2005, having spent the previous five years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Professional Communication at Ryerson, also appointed to the Ryerson-York joint graduate program in Communication and Culture. Her teaching experience includes a variety of communication, writing, and literature courses taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in both academic and professional settings. Professor Mason's research interests include digital communication and health communication. Her doctoral research, From Gutenberg's Galaxy to Cyberspace: The Transforming Power of Electronic Hypertext, was published as an e-book by CITD Press at the University of Toronto (2002). While maintaining her engagement with digital communication, she also developed a research project focusing on health communication. This international study into illness narratives was awarded a three-year grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Prof. Mason also especially enjoys curriculum development having designed and delivered unique courses in organizational communication, science communication, and computer communications.