She received her doctorate from York University in 2007 and joined the Faculty at York in 2009. She has worked as an elementary school teacher in the Philippines, Vietnam and Canada. Her work presently conducts a series of philosophical investigations into the problem of studying and learning from the lives of others. Professor Tarc seeks to foster, with students and colleagues, more imaginative and responsive modes of living, learning and relating to others and to develop committed and justice-seeking pedagogical interventions and practices.