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Lissa Lincoln

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Lissa Lincoln

Associate Professor, Program Coordinator for Gender, Sexuality & Society

  • Department: Psychology, Health and Gender
  • Office: 
    G-401
  • Office Hours: 
    Tuesdays 16:45鈥�17:45 or by appointment

Professor Lincoln is a scholar of French Theory and Literature whose interdisciplinary research explores the problems articulated around the questions of normativity and social justice. She is the Director of the Gender, Sexuality and Society program, housed in the department of Psychology. Her work in feminist and post-colonial theory, 20th century continental philosophy and Law and Literature are all informed by an interest in the interrelationship between judgment, power and morality and the intersecting politics of聽 race, class, caste, gender and sexuality that shape them.



Education/Degrees

  • PhD, French Literature and Theory, McGill University, Canada
  • MA, French Literature, University of Alberta, Canada
  • BEd, French Language and Literature, University of Alberta, Canada

Publications

  • 鈥淟aw, Literature, Morality: Michel Foucault and a Geneaology of Judgment鈥� in Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights, Ed. Ben Golder, Routledge, 2012.
  • 鈥淒eleuze and Camus: Strange Encounters鈥� in Deleuze and Law, Eds. Laurent de Sutter and Kyle McGee, Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
  • 鈥淟鈥橢thique de l鈥檃rtiste revolt茅鈥� in Camus, la philosophie et le christianisme, Eds. Hubert Faes et Guy Basset, Les editions du cerf, 2012.
  • 鈥淛ustice Imagined: Albert Camus鈥� Politics of Subversion鈥� in Law and Humanities, Special Issue Law and Literature, vol. 5, Oxford, Hart, 2011.
  • 鈥淒iscours du juste ou juste un discours?鈥� in Camus in the 21st Century Eds.聽Christine Margerrison, Marke Orme and Lissa Lincoln, Amstermdam, Rodopi Press, 2008.
  • 鈥淛ugement et justice dans La Chute de Camus鈥�, in Imaginer la loi, Eds. Antoine Garapon and Denis Salas, Michelon, Paris, 2008.

Conferences & Lectures

Conferences and papers
  • 鈥淎lbert Camus and a Politics of Subversion,鈥� (Key-Note Speaker), University of Mumbai, and the Indian Council of Social Research, International Conference Revisiting Camus commemorating the 50th anniversary of the author鈥檚 death, 24-25 March, 2010.
  • 鈥淟鈥橢thique de l鈥檃rtiste,鈥� Institut Catholique, Paris, International Conference on Camus and Philosophy, March 15-16, 2010.
  • 鈥淕lobalizing (In-)Justice: Albert Camus鈥� Subversion of the Law,鈥� Harvard University, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference, March 26-28, 2009.
  • 鈥淯ncertain Justice: The Politics of 鈥楥reating Dangerously鈥�,鈥� Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (ASLCH) annual conference, April 3-4, 2009.
  • 鈥淟aw, Literature, Morality: axes of judgment鈥� University of Leicester School of Law, UK, Critical Legal Conference (CLC), annual conference, September 11-13, 2009.
  • 鈥淛ustice Imagined: A Transmutation of Values,鈥� (Invited Speaker) Villa Vigoni, Italy, Dialogues on Justice, European Perspectives on Law and Humanities Conference, October 19-22, 2009.
  • 鈥淟aw鈥檚 Madness, Strategies of the Renegade,鈥� University of Glasgow School of Law, Critical Legal Conference (CLC), annual conference, September 5 -7, 2008.
  • 鈥淔oucault鈥檚 Law,鈥� (Invited Panelist), School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, Critical Legal Conference (CLC), 14-16 September, 2007.
Invited lectures
  • Invited lecturer, Manipal University, Centre for Humanities and Philosophy, Manipal, India 鈥淟aw, Literature and Philosophy: The Case of Gilles Deleuze鈥�, January 4, 2013.
  • Invited lecturer University of Mumbai, India, Department of French and Department of English and Cultural studies, Lecture Series on Law, Literature and Foucault, January 7-12, 2013.
  • Invited lecturer, University of Mumbai, India, Department of French and Department of English and Cultural Studies, Lecture Series on Camus and Law, February 25 鈥� March 3, 2012.
  • Invited speaker, Ecole nationale de la magistrature, Paris,聽 鈥淒roit, justice, litterature鈥�, April 2, 2011.
  • Invited participant in roundtable discussion, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, 鈥淟aw as Literature, Interpretation and Beyond鈥� Nordic Network for Law and Literature conference, October 2-4, 2008.
  • Invited lecturer, Ecole nationale de la magistrature, Paris, 鈥淒roit et Litterature鈥�, April 4, 2007.
  • Invited lecturer, University of Westminster Law School, London 鈥�(Un)Arrested Justice : Re-reading Camus,鈥� February聽 15, 2006.

Affiliations

  • CIEPFC, La R茅publique des savoirs (USR 3608)
  • Advisory Board, Edinburgh Critical Studies for Law, Literature and the Humanities
  • Research Fellow, The George and Irina Schaeffer Center of the Study o Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention聽
  • British Association for South Asian Studies
  • Dalit Research Network

Research Areas

  • Feminist Theory and Feminism(s)
  • Theory of Gender and Sexuality
  • Post-colonial Theory (Global South)
  • Contemporary French Philosophy (Foucault, Deleuze)
  • Critical Theory
  • Law and Literature
  • Albert Camus