Wafaa Hasan
Ph.D., English and Cultural Studies
Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream)
Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, (St. George Campus)
Wafaa Hasan (Ph.D., English and Cultural Studies) is an Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) in the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto-St. George campus.
She is an international lecturer and author who has taught in the Centre for Women and Gender Studies at Brock University, the Historical and Cultural Studies Department at the University of Toronto-Scarborough Campus and in the Gender Studies and Feminist Research Program at McMaster University since 2016.
Her publications examine topics such as Islamophobia and anti-Islamophobia advocacy in Canada and globally; contemporary trends of globalization in the Middle East; multiculturalism studies (e.g. Arab-Canadian organizations/leadership and government relations); childhood theory and the politics of children’s literature; decolonial feminist theory; transnational feminism; ethical solidarity practices; decolonial anti-racism theory; critical pedagogies; feminist and indigenous research methods (informed by her on-the-ground interview practices locally and transnationally); and global practices of resilience in displacement in Countering Displacements: The Creativity and Resilience of Indigenous and Refugee-ed Peoples (U of A Press, 2012).
Dr. Hasan’s teaching and research is focused on articulating modes of feminism that dismantle mainstream feminisms’ able-ist, racist, imperialist, classist, and faithist histories. Wafaa’s anti-oppression work is deeply invested in de-centring colonial epistemologies as well as marking colonial cultures as distinct and uniquely wedded to predatory capitalism.
Dr. Hasan’s dissertation, “Orientalist Feminism: Eastward Pedagogies” was nominated for the Governor General’s Academic Medal and the Canadian Association for Graduate Students’/University of Microfilms International’s CAGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award at McMaster University. She is regularly sought out to speak about this research for international/local keynotes and featured presentations.
“Dr. Hasan carries such a tremendous amount of passion for what she lectures about, and it is extremely evident through her detailed notes, the relevant and interesting readings, guest speakers and even through her own experiences. She has created a classroom environment that I have never had during my 4 years as a sociology student.”
”Women Transforming the World,” McMaster University