Vijay Ramjattan teaches Academic Listening and Speaking in the IFP. He is an interdisciplinary researcher who examines the intersections of language, race, and work in a range of professional settings. This research interest has taken the form of studies on racism and teachers’ work in English language teaching as well as how speech accent becomes a site of racialized workplace learning for international teaching assistants.

Education:

• PhD in Adult Education and Community Development (with specialization in Workplace Learning & Social Change), OISE/University of Toronto
• MA in Adult Education and Community Development, OISE/University of Toronto
• M.Ed. in Second Language Education, OISE/University of Toronto
• CTESOL with Honours, University of Toronto
• BA (Hons.), University of Toronto at Mississauga

• Ramjattan, V.A. (2021), “The transracial aesthetic labour of an international teaching assistant”, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Vol. 40 No. 8, pp. 973-985. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-12-2020-0365 
• Ramjattan, V.A. (2020), Engineered accents: international teaching assistants and their microaggression learning in engineering departments. Teaching in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2020.1863353