Profiles

Terra Poirier, a white, cis woman with short(ish) asymmetrical brown hair, blue eyes, dark-rimmed glasses, and black triangle earrings, looks at the camera, smiling.

Terra Poirier

Terra Poirier is an interdisciplinary artist, research communicator, and M.Ed. student in the EDST ALE program. She works with photography, graphic narrative, and print media to explore memory, community, labour, and erasure. Terra’s book, Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (UNIT/PITT, 2018), created with 26 instructors, received extensive media attention and has been presented in exhibitions, classrooms, and research contexts. Her work has been exhibited at the Polygon Gallery, Bainbridge Island Art Museum, Presentation House Gallery, and grunt gallery’s Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, and her award-winning short films have screened locally and internationally. Terra worked in public scholarship for almost two decades as a research communicator at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Prof. Althea Thauberger wearing a black top, blue jeans, and glasses, smiling

Althea Thauberger

Professor Althea Thauberger is an artist, filmmaker and educator known for place-based experimental documentary projects that emerge from collaborative research and production processes. Her work—spanning photography, film, video, and performance—explores relationships between community stories and geopolitical histories. She was born in Saskatoon, and is of settler Scandinavian and Black Sea German descent.

Prof. Thauberger’s recent exhibitions include the Kaunas Biennial (2021); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2020); The Toronto Biennial of Art (2019), The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2019); The National Gallery of Canada (2019); La musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2017), and the inaugural Karachi Biennale 2017.

headshot of Ying Han, with short hair, wearing glasses and a yellow raincoat, smiling

Ying Han

Ying Han is a recent graduate of the Department of Asian Studies Master’s program. Her research focus was on contemporary Asian / American women’s literatures and creation myths, focusing on depictions of pregnancy, consumption, and the more-than-human through a queer theoretical lens. She is a big fan of collaborative projects, a highlight of which being co-creating the Framing Asia film series at UBC. She previously worked as the Grants Editor with UBC Arts Amplifier to help make experiential learning opportunities possible for grad students, and is excited to be coming back to the PHH after two years as the new summer Communications Assistant.