Graduate Academic Assistant, Public Humanities Hub
M.Ed. Candidate, Department of Educational Studies
Email: terra.poirier@ubc.ca
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.
Research Area: Adult education, mentorship, trauma-informed andragogy, disability justice, and social justice education