Virtual Grad Colloquium with Dr. Anabel Maker: “The Signing Musician: Composer, Performer, Analyst.”

Friday, January 30, 2026 from 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm

• Virtual event
• Zoom meeting link

• Contact
• Anna Hoefnagels, AnnaHoefnagels@CUNET.CARLETON.CA

Anabel Maler is a scholar of music theory with interests in music and disability studies, music in Deaf culture, music perception, embodiment and gesture, post-tonal form, and the intersections of music theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology. She is the author of the first full-length scholarly monograph on sign language music, titled Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music (Oxford 2024). Her research has appeared in many venues, including SMT-V, Music Theory Online, Intégral, Music Perception, and the Journal of the Society for American Music. She is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of British Columbia, Canada and has previously held appointments at Indiana University and the University of Iowa.