sabine stxrm works across scholarly writing, art criticism, drawing, collage and curation.
At MECA&D, she teaches classes that focus on theories of interpretation, critical thinking skills, and conceptual writing. Using film, animation, music videos, poetry, and philosophy she provides students frameworks for thinking about their practices and the social world in which art & design appear.
Her classroom encourages students to take risk and ownership of their thoughts and ideas.
sabine holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from University of California, Irvine and an MA in Social & Political Thought from York University. she has held faculty positions at Cal Poly Humboldt and UC Irvine.
Her written work on visual media and theory has appeared, among other venues, in Landscape with(out) Locus (Nero Editions, Rome, 2023), Environment and Loss (University of Toronto, 2022) and Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities.
In Fall 2023, with Julie Poitras Santos, she co-curated Liveable Worlds at the Institute for Contemporary Art, in Portland, ME. In 2023 and 2024, she curated two MECA&D student exhibitions in 380 Cumberland (Liveable Worlds Rebellion; & On the Line.)
In addition, sabine has recently written a poetry manuscript, lose/lose metaphysics, as well as a chapbook, i, you, he, she.
2026 MECA&D Faculty Triennial, ICA
Instagram: @stealingfrmsabine