Biography

Gabrielle Moser is an art historian, writer, and independent curator. She is the author of Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire (Penn State University Press, 2019) and she is currently at work on her second book, Citizen Subjects: Photography and Sovereignty in Post-War Canada (under contract with McGill-Queens University Press). Her writing appears in venues including Artforum, Canadian Art, Journal of Visual Culture, Photography & Culture, and Prefix Photo. Moser has held fellowships at the Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art, the Ryerson Image Centre, the University of British Columbia, and the British Library, and she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Brown University in 2017. A founding member of EMILIA-AMALIA, she is an Assistant Professor of Aesthetics and Art Education in the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, Canada. 

Faculty & School/Dept

• Faculty of Education -

Courses Taught

• Feminist Pedagogy (GS/EDUC 5820)
• Situated Learning and Education (ED/EDST 1100)
• The Creative Process in Theory and Practice (GS/EDUC 5921)
• Un-learning the Archive: Facts, Fictions and Missing Histories (GS/EDUC 5235)
• Visual Culture and Sexualities (GS/EDUC 5472)

Selected Publications

• Gabrielle Moser (2021). Settler colonialism's container technologies: photographing crates in the Canadian Arctic (1926-1953) Settler Colonial Studies. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2021.1884427.
• Gabrielle Moser (2020). Familial ties and citizen claims: photography and early civil rights activism in African-Canadian newspapers Visual Studies. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2020.1827973.
• Gabrielle Moser (2019). Viola Desmond photograph -- now on $10 bill -- reminds us that her brave battle against prejudice went undepicted Toronto Star.
• Gabrielle Moser (2019). Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire. Penn State University Press
• Gabrielle Moser (2018). "No Looking After the Internet: Curatorial experiments and pedagogical failures in engaging difficult images" photographies, 11 (2-3), 313-327. doi:10.1080/17540763.2018.1445016.
• Gabrielle Moser (2017). "Photographing Imperial Citizenship" Journal of Visual Culture, 16 (2), 190-224. doi:10.1177/1470412917710826.
• Gabrielle Moser and Helena Reckitt (2016). Journal article (with Helena Reckitt), "Feminist Tactics of Citation, Annotation, and Translation: Curatorial Reflections on the Now You Can Go programme" On.Curating (29).

Research Projects

*Photography and Biopolitics: Race, Visibility and Embodiment in 21st Century Image Culture

*Reparative Frames: Visual Culture after Reconciliation

Failure is an Option: Assessing challenges and identifying resources for feminist artist-run culture

Picturing Race and Citizenship: photography and belonging in Canada

Family Camera

York University Affiliations/Cross Appointments

• Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies: Faculty Associate