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Jordana Garbati

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Assistant Professor

Jordana Garbati is Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy at the University of Toronto (Mississauga campus). Her research and teaching focuses on academic writing, intercultural communication, business communication, and emoji communication. She is an emojiologist! She is also Director of the Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre she oversees programming in writing, mathematics, study skills, and game based learning.

Aug. 14, 2025

S3 E12: "Emoji-ologist Dr. Jordana Garbati! 🤩🪩"

In this fascinating episode, Amit and Jeff interview Dr. Jordana Garbati, an “emoji-ologist” 😎 who has researched and lectured internationally about the use of emoji as language. For something we use every day, we sure had a ...