Dr. jessie beier, PhD

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. 

Bringing educational theory and practice in contact with contemporary conversations within fields such as Anthropocene studies, feminist STS, critical disability studies, queer ecological theory, energy humanities, extinction studies and AI/computation/machine learning, jessie’s research aims to develop what she calls a weird pedagogy, or an experimental (albeit always insufficient) pedagogical anti-model, a speculative programme for the unprogrammable that seeks to actualize, in collective ways, desired pedagogical otherworlds. 

jessie’s teaching and research interests include pedagogy, curriculum and educational philosophy; youth studies and popular culture (with a recent focus on today's dispersive landscape of reality TV); post-human, post-qualitative and post-critical methods; research-creation and arts-based pedagogies; media and communication studies (with a focus on sound and intermedia); cinema studies; feminist science and technology studies, queer futurity and (xeno)feminist theory; energy (in)humanities; speculative philosophy and philo-fictioning; critical animal studies, extinction studies and ecological praxis in light of the (so-called) Anthropocene; and the interface of DeleuzoGuattarian philosophies of desire with pedagogy.

Current & Upcoming Courses

ARTE 682/882 (Wi2025): Research Practice 

Courses Taught

ARTE 660/850: Post-Human Pedagogies in Art Education (Fall 2024)

ARTE 680/880: Foundations for Inquiry (Fall 2024)

ARTE 424: Art Education in the Secondary School II (Winter 2024)

ARTE 425: Practicum in the Secondary School II (Winter 2024)

ARTE 672/872: Advanced Critical Analysis (Winter 2024)

ARTE 422: Art Education in the Secondary School I (Fall 2023)

ARTE 432: Community Art Education (Fall 2023)

ARTE 670/870: Critical Perspectives on Art Education History (Fall 2023)

Graduate Supervision

Sarah Bélanger-Martel, PhD Student In Art Education

José Cortes, PhD Student in Art Education

Sara Lucas, PhD Student in Individualized Program

Jihane Mossalim, PhD Student in Art Education

Natalie Pavlik, PhD Student in Art Education

Reza Sedigihan, MA Student in Art Education

Kitty Walker, MA Student in Art Education

Books & Edited Collections

beier, j.l. & Chapman, O (Eds.). (2024). Sound Research in Troubling Times: Hope in Crisis. Co-edited w/ Owen Chapman. London/New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

The E.E.R.K. Collective. ( 2024). Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.). New York: Fordham University Press.

beier, j.l. (2023). Pedagogy at the end of the world: Weird pedagogies for unthought educational futures. London/New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

beier, j.l. & jagodzinski, j. (Eds.) (2022). Ahuman pedagogy: Multidisciplinary perspectives for education in the Anthropocene. London/New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Recent Articles & Chapters

beier, j.l. (2024). Weird horizons: Sound research at the sonic brink. In j. beier & O. Chapman (Eds.), Sound research for troubling times: Hope in crisis (pp. 221–247). Palgrave Macmillan.

beier, j.l. & Owen Chapman (2024). Introduction. In j. beier & O. Chapman (Eds.), Sound research for troubling times: Hope in crisis (pp. 221–247). Palgrave Macmillan.

beier, j.l. (2024). De-Extinction. In C. Taylor (Ed.), The Routledge companion to gender and animals. London/New York: Routledge. 

beier, j.l. (2023). No going back: Countering de-extinction, un-fixing the future [Special Issue on Extinction]. Animal Studies Journal, 12(2).

beier, j.l. & Wallin, j. (2023). Walking on sunshine. In B. Herzogenrath (Ed.), New perspectives on academic writing: The thing that wouldn’t die. New York: Bloomsbury. 

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