Tara Wren teaches Academic Core and Writing at Emily Carr. She has a Master’s degree in Canadian Studies (Carleton) and a Bachelor’s degree in Canadian Studies (UBC). She has taught writing, literature, and photography in Ottawa, Japan and Vancouver. She is interested in differences in communication – we might communicate differently from each other because we speak different languages, because we have different understandings or expectations for a situation, or because we understand the world differently. She wants to know more about what happens in the space between our understandings, and what happens when we ease traditions and rules around communication. Lately, she has been thinking a lot about who benefits and what is lost when we insist on enforcing rules around communication in academia and everyday life.
