Dr. Jessie Beier

Biography

jessie beier (MEd, PhD) is a teacher, artist, researcher, philosopher and conjurer of weird pedagogies for unthought futures. Working at the intersection of art, philosophy and pedagogy, jessie’s research-creation practice aims to mutate and upend dominant visions of educational futurity so as to speculate otherwise on pedagogical possibility in an era of ecocatastrophe.

As an educator, jessie has taught in a wide range of formal and informal learning contexts — from secondary school classrooms and university courses to art museums and prison libraries — and her scholarly work has been published in journals including Visual Arts Research, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy and Oraxiom: A Journal of Non-Philosophy. She is the author of the forthcoming book Pedagogy at the End of the World: Weird Pedagogies for Unthought Educational Futures (forthcoming, 2023) and co-editor of two collections: Sound Research for Troubling Times: Hope in Crisis (with Owen Chapman, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2024) and Ahuman Pedagogy: Multidisciplinary Perspectives for Education in the Anthropocene (with jan jagodzinski, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

As an artist-researcher, jessie has presented her work — through exhibitions, public workshops and conferences/symposia —  both locally and inter/nationally and has been involved in numerous interdisciplinary research-creation projects including Landscape of Hate/Hope (Concordia University), Speculative Energy Futures (University of Alberta), After Oil School (University of Alberta, McGill University), Just Powers (University of Alberta) and the Research-­Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory (University of Alberta).

jessie’s teaching and research interests include pedagogy, curriculum and educational philosophy; media and communication studies (with a focus on sound and intermedia); environmental feminisms, queer futurity and (xeno)feminist theory; energy (in)humanities; extinction studies and ecological praxis in light of the (so-called) Anthropocene; and the interface of DeleuzoGuattarian philosophy with pedagogy.

Post-qualitative and post-human methods in art education; research-creation; speculative philosophy; future studies; media and communication studies; sound studies and sonic practices; immersive practices and installation art; environmental and social justice education; critical animal studies; feminist theory; queer theory; youth culture; anti-fascist pedagogy; community arts.