Nancy Johnston

Dr. Nancy Johnston develops writing support across the disciplines, and teaches courses in Women’s and Gender Studies. Her areas of research interest are writing pedagogy and inclusive design, disability advocacy in Canada, and disability arts and writing. Her most recent publication explores responses of Canadian disability arts organizations to the pandemic, “Rethinking Access” (2020) for  Studio Magazine: Craft and Design:  https://www.studiomagazine.ca/issues/2019/vol-15-no-2

As a coordinator and in CTL, she designs teaching resources for faculty to support dialogue on inclusive design in higher education. She has co-presented workshops and campus events to support new teaching faculty and TAs on inclusive practice in the classroom. She co-authored with Tina Doyle, director of AccessAbility Services, on student perspectives on inclusive pedagogy. Johnston, Nancy, and Tina Doyle. 2011. “Inclusive Teaching: Perspectives of Students with Disabilities.” Open Words: Access and English Studies 5.1: 53 – 60. https://uwaterloo.ca/english/sites/ca.english/files/uploads/files/open_words-spring_2011.pdf 

Her course Gender and Disability (WSTC40), launched in 2010, is an introduction to disability advocacy with an intersectional perspective on human rights and social justice movements, and disability representation and media. My courses integrate opportunities for students to explore creativity as a tool for self-expression and advocacy and research on disability arts.  https://rethink.utoronto.ca/student-mental-health-advocacy-in-the-classroom/