Gabrielle Moser

Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director

PhD, Art History and Visual Culture - York University, Toronto, Canada; MA, Art History - York University, Toronto, Canada; BA, Art History and Nineteenth Century Studies - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Location(s) / Contact Info:

221, Winters College - WC
Keele Campus Ext. 22517

Website: Personal Website; EMILIA-AMALIA feminist working group

CV of Gabrielle Moser

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 at work on her second book, Citizen Subjects: Photography and Sovereignty in Post-War Canada (under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press). She is currently pursuing two collaborative research projects that examine the intersections of artistic practice and political subjectivity. The first, "Photography and Biopolitics," undertaken with student researchers Jeffrey Newberry, Charles Marco Diokno Manzo and Myrtle Sodhi, investigates how artists and youth navigate their experiences of (self-) surveillance, and how they resist its effects through glitches, hacks, and other creative forms of speaking back to state power. The second, “Feminist Transmissions” (alongside Giulia Damiani and Helena Reckitt), examines the ongoing resonance of 1970s feminist practices on the present, with a particular attention to the uses of art, psychoanalysis and writing in Italian feminism.

 

Moser is a regular contributor to Artforum, and her writing appears in venues including Journal of Visual Culture, Photography & Culture, Prefix Photo and Third Text. She 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. She is a founding member of EMILIA-AMALIA, a feminist working group based in Toronto since 2016, and 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

  • Learning from Traumatic Histories: Curation and Controversies (GS/EDUC 5045)
  • Research and Issues in Language, Culture and Teaching (GS/EDUC 5100)

Selected Publications

Research Projects

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

Role: Principal Investigator

Amount funded: $87,790

Year Funded: 2021

Duration: 5

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

A 5 year project in partnership with Toronto artist-run centre Gallery 44 that uses interviews with contemporary artists, "looking groups" with local high school student co-researchers, and research creation methods, to ask how youth navigate their relationship to embodiment and photographic (self-)surveillance.

Reparative Frames: Visual Culture after Reconciliation

Role: Principal Investigator

Amount funded: $25,000

Year Funded: 2019

Duration: 2

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

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

Role: Principal Investigator

Amount funded: $24,976

Year Funded: 2018

Duration: 2

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Picturing Race and Citizenship: photography and belonging in Canada

Role: Principal Investigator

Amount funded: $41,000

Year Funded: 2016

Duration: 2

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Family Camera

Role: Collaborator

Amount funded: $199,925

Year Funded: 2016

Duration: 3

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)