Dr. Dina Al Kassim

Biography

Dina Al-Kassim is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia. She is known as a critical theorist working on political subjectivation, sexuality, aesthetics, transnational modernist, and contemporary postcolonial cultures, with a focus on the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the United States. Al-Kassim is the author of 'Pain Speech: Fantasies of Order Literary Rant' (University of California Press, 2010), which examines the politics of parrhesia in literary practices. Her research has been published in various esteemed journals including Grey Room, International Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, and Public Culture. Her current project, titled 'Exposures: Biopolitics of New Precarity and Globalization,' explores the conditions of contemporary truth through literature and art practices in contexts like Lebanon, South Africa, and the United States. Al-Kassim's past positions include noteworthy roles at UC Irvine and Stanford University as a Mellon Postdoctoral fellow, and she has been an invited speaker internationally. She teaches at UBC, where she also works with the Social Justice Institute and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.

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