Jacqueline Taylor
Dean, College of Communications
Jacqueline Taylor was appointed inaugural dean of DePaul’s new College of Communication in March 2007. A faculty member in the department of communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LA&S) since 1980, she has held numerous administrative positions in LA&S and the university. Prior to accepting the dean’s post, she was associate vice president for Academic Affairs, where both the Office of Continuing and Professional Education (CPE) and Suburban Campuses reported to her. Taylor will continue to provide leadership for CPE in her current position.
She served as founding director of the DePaul Humanities Center for seven years, and prior to that was associate dean of graduate studies in LA&S. Taylor also chaired the department of communication from 1990 to 1995, served as director of the Women’s Studies program and was undergraduate coordinator of the communication program before it became its own department.
Having worked at DePaul during more than two decades of institutional growth, Taylor has significant experience in new program development. She has contributed to the creation of bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in communication as well as worked with faculty to design several interdisciplinary programs outside the department.
Taylor—who, 27 years ago, was one of the first full-time faculty members hired into what was then a new communication program—now heads a college that employs 30 full-time faculty and enrolls more than 1,000 undergraduates and 115 graduate students. Communication is the largest undergraduate major at DePaul and it is the third-largest provider of bachelor’s degrees in communication in Illinois.
A performance studies specialist, Taylor’s memoir, “Waiting for the Call,”was recently published by the University of Michigan Press. She is the author of “Grace Paley: Illuminating the Dark Lives,” and co-editor of “Voices Made Flesh: Performing Women’s Autobiography.” She has performed autobiographical pieces at Sushi Gallery in San Diego, Las Manos Gallery in Chicago and at numerous universities and national conferences. Her scholarly articles and essays in the area of performance studies have appeared in Text and Performance Quarterly, Southern Speech Communication Journal and Women’s Studies in Communication. She is on the editorial board of Text and Performance Quarterly and is a past chairperson of the Performance Studies Division of the National Communication Association.
Taylor received a bachelor’s degree in English and communication arts from Georgetown College in Kentucky. She earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Texas at Austin before joining the faculty of DePaul. She completed the Management Development Program at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1996. Taylor was an American Council on Education Fellow at Kent State University in 2005-2006, where she worked closely with the president and provost.
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