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The Faculty of Fine Arts welcomes five new professors

August 13, 2025
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By Vanessa Hauguel

 

Four new tenure-track professors and one Extended-Term Appointment professor are joining the Faculty of Fine Arts, bringing expertise across a wide range of disciplines.

“We are thrilled to welcome five remarkable new colleagues whose approaches reflect the Faculty’s strong commitment to socially engaged and interdisciplinary work,” says Annie Gérin, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts.

“Whether through music, curation, art therapy, experimental performance, or critical research, each of them will enrich our students’ academic experience. Their contributions to the wider community are significant, and I look forward to seeing how they continue to expand the reach of the work we do.” 

Meet our new tenure-track teachers

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Annabelle Brault 
Department of Creative Arts Therapies

Annabelle Brault holds the Sandra and Alain Bouchard Professorship in Music Therapy at Concordia University, and has been teaching since 2018 in the Creative Arts Therapies department. She is a certified music therapist and a PhD candidate in the Individualized Fine Arts program at Concordia. Her research explores how musicking can enhance digital well-being among youth and drive social change, as well as how resource-oriented practices can foster more inclusive clinical and educational spaces. She has presented her work locally and internationally, while contributing to several interdisciplinary research-creation projects. Recently, she advanced research-creation work with the art collective BANAL, engaging in artistic collaborations in Mexico City and Guadalajara. As a professional electronic musician, Brault performs with the music collective arc across Canada.

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Meghan Gilhespy 
Department of Music

Meghan Gilhespy is an experimental vocalist and jazz scholar specializing in gender-critical jazz historiography. She researches the cultural politics of experimental jazz singing and is the first woman in Canada to obtain a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Jazz Studies. In addition to a long history of conventional jazz performance—including her own published album Vive Le Tour (2016), Gilhepsy has done studio work for Netflix and The National Film Board of Canada, and presented multiple improvised performances with dancers, expanding her skills as an experimental vocal improviser. She has been a faculty member at the Creative Music Workshop since 2024.

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Katrina Grabner 
Department of Creative Arts Therapies (Extended-Term Appointment)

Katrina Grabner is a Registered Canadian Art Therapist (RCAT), Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC-BCACC), educator, artist, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). Her practice integrates nervous system–aware, trauma-informed approaches in art therapy. With over a decade in low-barrier, harm-reduction–oriented organizations on unceded Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver), she works from a relational, anti-oppression framework informed by both professional and lived experience. Committed to decolonization, Grabner brings a special interest in trauma-informed, neurodivergent-affirming teaching pedagogies, fostering safety, belonging, expression, and play in education. Her art practice often involves immersive installations combining natural and industrial materials—fibre, wax, clay, and found objects—to explore ecological identity, embodiment, and collective healing. She is pursuing a PhD in Individualized Studies at Concordia and holds an MA in Psychotherapy and Spirituality with a specialization in art therapy from St. Stephen’s College, University of Alberta.

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Norah Lorway 
Department of Music

Norah Lorway is a composer, coder, live coder, and AI researcher. She holds a PhD in computer music at the University of Birmingham, working with BEAST and BEER, as well as an MMus from the University of Calgary and a BMus from Mount Allison University. Lorway has performed at algoraves and live coding events throughout the UK, Europe, Asia, and Australia at several venues and at conferences including NIME, AIMC, AISB, and ICLC. She is a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Robert Fleming Award in composition. Her work in live coding and film music has received international recognition from outlets such as MixMag, the Sundance Festival, Berlin Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. Recently, she was nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors award for Best Score for her work on the film Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. Lorway is also a co-director and founder of Beesting Labs, specializing in software development for AI, immersive, and DSP applications, and creator of the Scorch music programming language. Her work is published by MIT Press, including the second edition of the SuperCollider book.

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Gabrielle Moser 
Department of Art History

Gabrielle Moser is an art historian, writer, and independent curator. She is the author of Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire and, with Adrienne Huard, co-editor of a special issue of Journal of Visual Culture on reparation. Moser is currently working on her second book, Citizen Subjects: Photography and Sovereignty in Post-War Canada. She has held fellowships at the Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art, the Image Centre, the University of British Columbia, and the British Library, and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Brown University in 2017. A founding member of EMILIA-AMALIA, Moser was previously an Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Art Education in the Faculty of Education at York University. She was recently named Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia.


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