Dr. Jeeyeon Ryu is the Interim Associate Dean (General Education) and Chair of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education at Yorkville University. She started teaching at Yorkville in 2021 and joined the Faculty of Education Leadership Team (FELT) in 2023. Jeeyeon brings over 25 years of teaching experience in various educational contexts, and she holds Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies (UBC), as well as bachelor’s (Western) and master’s (UVic) degrees in Music, specializing in piano performance and pedagogy. Currently, Jeeyeon’s research explores themes and variations related to arts-integrated pedagogies, lived/living curriculum, reflexive praxis, and creativity in teaching and learning. Inspired by various artistic practices, she integrates music, poetry, photography, videography, and creative storytelling into her teaching, research, and writing. Her scholarly works have been published by Brill, Guilford Press, Music Education Research, International Journal of Education through Art, Qualitative Inquiry, LEARNing Landscapes, Routledge, Oxford University Press, and Vernon Press. In 2024, she published her book, THAWZEN Moments which includes a collection of vignettes, digital collages, poems, and narratives about creating more meaningful and creative approaches to teaching, learning, and re/presenting research. To learn more about Dr. Ryu’s research, please visit her portfolio. Research Interests: curriculum studies, arts-based research, a/r/tographical living inquiry, evocative autoethnography, reflexive inquiry, poetic inquiry, creative teaching, learning, and research practices.