Contact

For general contact:
cdfphd at gmail.com

For current students:
Please check the contact policies in our syllabus for the correct institutional email address or other contact instructions.

My email practices: During the regular Fall/Winter/Spring academic terms, I typically respond to emails within two business days of receipt (excluding weekends and holidays). Depending on my workload or travel, replies may come at uncommon hours. Please do not feel obliged to reply to my emails outside of your normal working hours: my working day may not be your working day.

I generally respond faster to emails with clear and descriptive subject lines. If you are a student, please include our course code in the subject line of the email (to make sure it is sorted into my priority inboxes). If you don’t hear back from me in a timely manner, it’s more likely that I missed your email than that I’m intentionally ignoring you; please feel invited to send me a nudge! I’ll find it more helpful than annoying.

I would much rather receive an ungrammatical email than an AI generated email, both for ethical and practical reasons. If you are a student who nonetheless feels obliged to use AI to communicate with me, please make sure your prompt parameters result in a short and direct email, with limited fluff or extraneous details, and with any questions or requests clearly and directly stated.

Alternative means of contact: I know that email will not always be the most appropriate or accessible form of communication. I am happy to arrange alternative means of contact where possible, including but not limited to phone calls, video chats, mediated or facilitated communication, in-person meetings, group conversations, and other alternatives according to our joint situations and needs.

Naming and citing: I go by my initial “C” both in professional and personal contexts, pronounced just as “sea.” My surname is made up of two names hyphenated together, written as “Dalrymple-Fraser” and pronounced as “Daal+rim+pull+fray+sir.” Please use they/them pronouns to refer to me in English, whether in professional citation or in casual conversation.