Samantha Jackson
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Linguistics and Graduate Centre for Academic Communication, School of Graduate Studies
Samantha Jackson is an assistant professor, teaching stream, in the Department of Linguistics and the Graduate Centre for Academic Communication at the School of Graduate Studies. Before joining the Faculty of Arts & Science, she completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Since commencing postsecondary instruction in 2014, Jackson has taught introductory linguistics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, literary linguistics, oral communication, written communication and workplace communication. She is now developing courses in language discrimination and workshops on poster presentations, teaching philosophy statements and contacting cross-disciplinary collaborators.
Jackson primarily conducts language research that directly addresses societal problems. Her current work focuses on identifying and addressing accent discrimination against immigrants to Canada in hiring evaluations and assessing large language models’ ability to process minoritized dialects of English. Recent work included an examination of accent discrimination in hiring evaluations in southern Ontario.
Jackson holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.