jessie beier is a teacher, artist, researcher, and conjurer of weird pedagogies for unthought futures. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art Education at Concordia University, where she works with folks to make concepts, experiment with collectivities, and craft pedagogies through all kinds of material encounters. She has published writing in the areas of (art) education, media and sound studies, feminist STS, critical animal studies, speculative philosophy, and (post)Anthropocene thought, with recent and forthcoming work on mixtaping, underground atmospheres, fungal horror, black box pedagogy, and methodological frustration. She is the author of Pedagogy at the End of the World: Weird Pedagogies for Unthought Educational Futures (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), co-author and designer of the Energy Emergency Repair Kit (Fordham University Press, 2024), and co-editor of Ahuman Pedagogy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) and Sound Research in Troubling Times: Hope in Crisis (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024). As an artist, beier has exhibited work in galleries, universities, and community spaces where she often works collectively to create multi-sensory environments and speculative scenarios that invite pedagogical fabulation.

Website: www.jessiebeier.com