jan jagodzinski is a Professor in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta. He held a joint appointment with Mount Saint Vincent University in Nova Scotia and The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Currently, he teaches visual art education and media education as well as curricular issues as they relate to postmodern concerns of gender politics, cultural studies, and the media-specifically film and television. He is involved with the Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society as well as the Journal of Lacanian Studies. He edits the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education and is the author of The Anamorphic I/i, Postmodern Dilemmas: Outrageous Essays in Art & Art Education, Pun(k) Deconstruction: Experifigural Writings in Art & Art Education, Pedagogical Desire (editor), and Deconstructing the Oral Eye. jan jagodzinski was awarded the Manuel Barkan Memorial Award in 2011.