Al-Kassim bio and publications

Assistant Professor
English & Comparative Literature
dalkassi@uci.edu

Dina Al-Kassim teaches British, American, French, Arabic, Anglophone and Francophone modernisms, critical theory and postcolonial studies in the Comparative Literature Dept at UCI. Before coming to UCI she taught in Comparative Literature at Stanford University and in English at SUNY Albany. She has been a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Comparative Literature Dept., a fellow at the UC Humanities Research Institute’s 2003 residency group on “Redress and Reparations, Law and Literature” and a speaker in an Advanced Seminar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Al-Kassim has published most recently in Interventions, Public Culture and the Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter of the MLA. Forthcoming publications include On Pain of Speech, which addresses the problem of subjection in modernist literature, and Repudiating the Law, a comparative study of the phantom of kinship and impossible reparation in the postcolonial states of North and South Africa. Al-Kassim’s research interests include psychoanalysis, gender and queer theory, postcolonial critique, literary and political appropriations of psychoanalysis, 19th century fin-de-siècle culture, colonial law and manipulations of kinship structures, postcolonial Islam, feminist philosophy, theories of culture.

Selected Publications:
“ The Face of Foreclosure”, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 4:2, 2002
“Crisis of the Unseen: Unearthing the Political Aesthetics of Hysteria in the Archeology and Arts of the New Beirut”, PARACHUTE #108, Special Issue: Beirut, 2002
“ The Faded Bond: Calligraphesis and Kinship in Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Postcolonial Fiction” Translation Toward a Global Market, Special Issue Public Culture, Vol. 13, January 2001
“ Gayatri Spivak and the Limits of Postcolonial Reason”, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 4:2, 2002 Special Section, Dina Al-Kassim and Purushottama Bilimoria, eds.
“Introduction,” Crossing Paths of Middle Eastern and Sexuality Studies: Challenges of Theory, History, and Comparative Methods, Afsaneh Najmabadi and Katherine Babayan eds., Columbia University Press, forthcoming