Dr. Michael Patrick Lapointe earned his Honours B.A. in English and History at the University of Western Ontario, winning the gold medal for his program, and then completed his M.A. in English at McMaster University. In 2007, he received his Ph.D. in English from the University of British Columbia and was awarded the William and Anne Messenger Scholarship for Outstanding PhD student.
Dr. Lapointe joined Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Professional Communication in 2013 and now teaches a variety of courses there as well as for the Chang School. He has lectured in Business Communication, Engineering Communication, Professional Health Communication, Technical Writing, Writing Composition, English Literature, Canadian History in addition to a class in Nationalism, Conflict, and Identity. He is TESL Canada- and TESL Ontario-certified and has several teaching awards and nominations to his credit including the Superior Teaching Award, University of Toronto (short listed in 2017), and the Inspired Teaching Award, OCAD-U, in 2014.
Dr. Lapointe currently teaches in the Academic Bridging Program and the Woodsworth One Program at the University of Toronto. Additionally, he has taken part in the Writing and Rhetoric initiative at the Rotman School of Business. Dr. Lapointe has served as a writing instructor in six academic writing centres at the University of Toronto including Trinity College and for the various faculties of Health Sciences and Engineering.
Dr. Lapointe’s research interests include innovative critical pedagogy, writing and rhetoric, travel writing, nationalism studies, Irish and British literature, popular culture, and Canadian history. Dr. Lapointe has managed his own technical writing business, To The Point Enterprise, since 2001. He is a passionate traveller having visited some 40-odd countries to date.