Sujaya Devi Rampersad-Singh

As a PhD student, Sujaya’s research interests look at globalization, intercultural relations, and Canadian multiculturalism through platform and media studies. Inspired by her family’s roots in Trinidad and Tobago with an ancestry from India, Sujaya’s academic journey was inspired by ethnic media from Canada’s Indo-Caribbean community.

Sujaya is a research assistant for the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Department of Arts, Culture and Media, where she works with Professor Sherry Yu on the Digital Ethnic Media Hub (DEMH) which aims to serve as a publicly accessible digital space with an ethnic media directory and an ethnic news database.

Sujaya is a college professor at Sheridan College’s Faculty of Animation, Arts, and Design, where she has taught in the Media Fundamentals, Public Relations, and Journalism programs since 2018. Sujaya’s time is also spent as a content strategist, short story and poetry author, educator, and podcast host. She is known for her books Devi(l): Poetry and Prose (2021) and Write Left: a collection of short stories (2017). She is a contributor in the Caribbean short story anthology Two Times Removed: Volume III which speaks to shared intercultural and diasporic experiences. She hosted the podcast Our First Page, which explores lifelong learning topics related to beginnings, creativity, and cultural identity. Sujaya directed the University of Toronto Mississauga first student-led podcast for the Department of Political Science. Over the Podium was one of the first university podcasts to bridge the communications gap between students and experts in the field of Political Science.

• Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology
• University of Toronto Scarborough Department of Arts, Culture, Media
• Jackman Humanities Institute
• Sheridan College Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design