Ran Xiang is a PhD student in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, with a focus on Art Education. Before pursuing her current degree, she has finished her first MA in Comparative Literature at University of Alberta and her second MA in Education Studies at UBC. Her dissertation project investigates the aesthetic qualities and the educative nature and potential of tea ceremony, seeing it as a form of aesthetic and affective pedagogy. Her research interests include tea ceremony, place and space, objects and materiality, aesthetics and aesthetic pedagogy and qualitative methodology.