CURRICULUM VITAE
LINA NASR EL HAG ALI
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Recent
Lecturer
Faculty of Arts and Science, OCAD University and the Politics Department, York University, Toronto, CA.
Courses taught:
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ENGL1003 The Essay and the Argument, Fall 2022. First year undergraduate foundations course.
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HUMN2003 History of Political Thought, Fall 2022. Second year undergraduate elective course.
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ENGL3003 Science Fiction, Winter 2023. Third year undergraduate elective course.
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HUMN3014 Feminist Theories, Winter 2023. Third year undergraduate elective course.
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HUMN4002 Existentialism, Winter 2023. Fourth year undergraduate elective course.
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POLS3025 A Century of Revolution, Winter 2021 and Winter 2019. Third year undergraduate elective course.
Aiming to be pedagogically innovative in the Humanities and Social Sciences –I bring together four broad fields and the debates internal to them: Science and Technology Studies; Critical Race Theory; Social Reproduction; European Intellectual, Political, and Cultural History; and Area Studies. In all my courses I prioritize and forefront historical case studies, allowing students to begin with the material before moving to more abstracted positions. Finally, in the spirit of collaboration and knowledge production as a communal undertaking, I aim to highlight and bring in for guest lectures my colleagues with overlapping and co-constitutive expertise. Through close readings of the texts, internal critique, discussion, and conversation; my aim is to move away from the traditional lecture model. My aim is for students to feel at ease and empowered, as they prepare for work and participation in the broad world of social justice, policy, and academia.
Publications
“Politics as Mythmaking” (2024) Forthcoming.
“How Science Fiction Can Address the Crisis of Political Imagination: The Case for Revising the Future” Public Seminar Journal (2022).
Translated Interview with editor CoÅŸku Çelik on Social Reproduction Struggles for Praksis Journal: no. 57 (Jan 2022)
“Afrofuturism and its possibility of elsewhere: The power of political imagination” The Conversation (Oct 2021).
“Toronto’s Social Reproduction Organizing in the Age of COVID-19” Spectre: A Marxist Journal (Oct 2020). Co-authored with Olena Lyubchenko.
“Building Political Infrastructure for the Present” Chapter in Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left: Recasting Leftist Imagination (2020) Fernwood Publishing.
“Cosmic Slop: Possibilities of Alien Futures (From the Past)” Politics of Machines: Art and After (2018) EVA Copenhagen. Co-authored with A.T. Kingsmith.
"Waging War on the Citizen: State Sovereignty, Citizen Death and the War on Terror," The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies, and Development: no.1 (Oct 2015)
Education
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Hons. B.A., Political Science and History, University of Ottawa. Cum Laude
MA, Political Science, York University. Supervisor: Robert Latham.
Graduate Diploma in Refugee and Migration Studies, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
PhD, Politics, York University.
Dissertation (in progress): Alienation in the Neoliberal City: Lessons on Futurity
Committee: Dr. Laam Hae (Chair), Dr. Karen Murray, Dr. Terry Maley
Conferences & Seminars
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“The Resistance to Critical Race Theory: Reading the CRT Culture Wars” with Kendall Thomas (2023, June) Institute for Critical and Social Inquiry (ICSI) at the New School for Social Research, New York, US
Nasr El Hag Ali, Lina (2022, April). “Fromm, Leftist Strategy, and Alternative Futures” at ‘Erich Fromm’s Critical Psychology and Left Strategy Today.’ Sponsored by the International Marxist-Humanist Organization & FROMM2022.
Nasr El Hag Ali, Lina (2021, November). A Revisionist History of the Future: Global transformation as ‘Unfinished Business’. Presentation on ‘Theory, Geopolitics, and Global Transformation’ panel at the International Studies Association- Northeast (ISA-NE) Providence, Rhode Island, US
Nasr El Hag Ali, Lina, (2019, November). Sheila Jasanoff and Global Politics of Technoscience: Dreamscapes of our Times. Panel presentation at the International Studies Association- Northeast (ISA-NE) Providence, Rhode Island, US
Nasr El Hag Ali, Lina, (2018, October) Alien Politics. Paper presented to Millennium Conference hosted by the London School of Economics, London, UK
Nasr El Hag Ali, Lina & A.T. Kingsmith, (2018, May). Cosmic Slop: Possibilities of Alien Futures (From the Past). Presentation to the Politics of Machines Conference hosted by Aalborg University, Copenhagen, DE
Nasr El Hag Ali, Lina, (2017, October). Post-Truth, the Trump Right, and Repressive Tolerance. Paper presented to the International Herbert Marcuse Society seventh biannual conference hosted by York University, Toronto, Ca
Nasr El Hag Ali, Lina, (2017, May). The Future as a Site of Impossibility. Paper presented to the Politics of the Possible Workshop hosted by York University, Toronto, CA
Nasr El Hag Ali, Lina, (2014, April). Waging War on the Citizen: State Sovereignty, Citizen Death and the War on Terror. Presented master’s thesis at the American Graduate School in Paris, Paris, FR
Guest Lectures
“Confronting Alienation in the Neoliberal City: Lessons from Afrofuturist Thought” the Centre for Design Research at HAW Hamburg, Germany (12/15/2020)
http://speclog.xyz/news/guest-lecture-lina-nasr-elhag-ali
“The Imposter and Alien Politics: Possibilities for a Machine Oriented Future” LASER talks Fortelaza (Universidade de Fortelaza, Brazil) (05/30/2018) https://www.leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info%3Fid%3D201%26reset%3D1
Service
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Senate Student Appeals Committee [2022-2023]
Faculty of Art and Science, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
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Adjudicating student academic appeals.
Doctoral Admissions Committee [2018-19 Admission Cycle]
Department of Politics, York University, Toronto, ON
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Charged with reviewing applications for prospective doctoral students to the Department of Politics during the 2018-19 admission cycle.
Liaison (Chair) of Graduate Political Science Program Students’ Association
[August 2016 –August 2017]
601C S Ross, York University, Toronto, ON
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The Liaison is responsible for overseeing and facilitating the advancement of the common interests of graduate students in the Political Science program at York University.
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Community Engagement
Campaign Manager [August- October 2022]
Shaker Jamal Campaign for Toronto City Council, Ward 9
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Editorial Committee [November 2020-February 2023]
Midnight Sun Magazine https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/
Coordinator [June 2019-present]
Kandaka International for Women’s Rights
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Misc. Teaching, Research, Publications
Sessional Instructor
Department of Politics, York University, Toronto, CA.
POLS3025, third year undergraduate course: ‘A Century of Revolution’ Winter 2019& Winter 2021
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Nasr El Hag Ali, L. & Olena Lyubchenko “Black Workers Matter: Support the Tropicana Strike” Spring Magazine (Nov 2020).
Michael Löwy and Olivier Besancenot (2018) Translation. Lina Nasr El Hag Ali “Expanding the Horizon: For a Libertarian Marxism” Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought: Vol.8 Iss. 2. Special issue.
Teaching Assistant [2019-20 Academic Year]
Dr. Marcello Musto, Associate Professor
York University, Toronto, ON
Introduction to Sociological Theory (SOCI2040 Section B)
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Teaching Assistant [2019-20 Academic Year]
Cameron Johnston, Professor
York University, Toronto, ON
Self, Culture and Society (SOSCI1140 Section A)
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Teaching Assistant [Academic Years 2016-17/ 2017-18/ 2018-19/Summer 2019]
Dr. Michelle Mawhinney, Professor
Dr. Jakeet Singh, Associate Professor
Dr. Terry Maley, Professor
York University, Toronto, ON
Perspectives on Politics: Classics of Western Political Thought (POLS2900 Section A)
