Crystal Chokshi

Crystal joined the School of Communication Studies at Mount Royal University in July 2022. She holds a BA (English) from the University of Ottawa, an MA (English) from Simon Fraser University, and a PhD (Communication and Media Studies) from the University of Calgary, where she was a SSHRC doctoral fellow and Killam scholar. Crystal’s research has two chief preoccupations. First, she examines how colonial logics are built into acts and technologies of writing. Second, she carries out critical praxis that challenges the communicative and linguistic futures that technology companies are charting. She brings her research into the classroom, challenging PR students to discern and disrupt colonial logics in our communication and media technologies.