Assistant Professor of Art Education and Women’s Studies at Penn State University, USA.

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Stephanie Springgay completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia in 2004 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art Education and Women's Studies at Penn State University. Her dissertation, Inside the Visible: Youth understandings of body knowledge through touch, examines adolescent experiences of the body in and as visual culture. Her teaching, research, and artistic explorations focus on issues of relationality— posing bodied ways of knowing through proximity, encounters, and vulnerability. In addition, as a multidisciplinary artist working with installation and video-based art, she investigates the relationship between artistic practices and methodologies of research.

Background photo: Philippe Raphanel