Areas of Expertise/Research interests

• European philosophy
• political philosophy
• philosophy of movement
• history of philosophy

Current Research and projects

I am currently working on a series of books on the philosophy of movement. So far in the series I have published The Figure of the Migrant with Stanford University Press and Theory of the Border with Oxford and Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion with Edinburgh University Press. More books are planned for the series and are in various stages of completion.   

I am also working on an NEH funded transcription and translation project to publish the seminars of Gilles Deleuze's audio course lectures in collaboration with Purdue University and the Université de Paris VIII at La Voix de Deleuze. For more information, visit our website, Between Deleuze and Foucault.

Professional biography

My recent work applies the philosophy of movement to a number of domains of study including politics, ontology, art, aesthetics, science,technology, and mathematics. My methodology is motivated by pressing contemporary concerns but also deeply rooted in historical and empirical research.  

Publications

Monographs.

• Being and Motion (Oxford University Press, 2018)
• Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion  (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).
• Theory of the Border (Oxford University Press, 2016).
• The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015).
  • Interviewed by Critical–Theory.com (2015)
  • Reviewed by Etienne RP on Amazon.com
  • Reviewed by SilentTrends.com
  • Review Roundtable in  PhænEx  11, no. 1 (2016): 141-162.
• Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo (Edinburgh University Press, 2012)
  • Reviewed by Nathan Jun in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2013).
  • Reviewed by Nathan Widder in Foucault Studies 18 (2014)
  • Interviewed by Critical–Theory.com (2013)

Edited Books.

• Between Deleuze and Foucault (Edinburgh University Press, 2016)

Edited Journal Issues.

• Foucault and Deleuze Foucault Studies 17 (2014).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles.

• Three Theses on Neoliberal Migration and Social Reproduction, Polygraph—An International Journal of Culture and Politics Issue 27, 2019.

• Figures of the Migrant: Structure and Resistance, Cultural Dynamics Volume 30, Issue 3, August 2018.

• The Ontology of Motion Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 27, Issue 1, June 1, 2018, 47-76. 
• What is an Assemblage? SubStance, Volume 46, Number 1, 2017 (Issue 142), pp. 21-37.
• A Roundtable on The Figure of the Migrant , PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, 11, no. 1 (spring/summer 2016): 141-162.
• A Tale of Two Crises: Migration and Terrorism after the Paris Attacks, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Vol 16, Issue 1, (April 2016): 158–167.
• Alain Badiou and the Sans-Papiers, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 20:4 (2015), 109-130.
• Migrant Cosmopolitanism, Public Affairs Quarterly, 29.2, (April 2015): 187–199.
• Zapatismo and the Global Origins of Occupy, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory vol. 12 no. 3 (2013): 20–35.
• Deleuze, Occupy, and the Actuality of Revolution, Theory & Event 16.1 (2013).
  • Translated into Turkish as "Deleuze, işgal ve Devrimi'nin Güncelliği," in Gezinin Yeryüzü Kardeşleri , trans. Sinem Ozer, ed. Sinem Ozer (Istanbul: Otonom Publishing, 2014).
• The Crossroads of Power: Michel Foucault and the U.S./Mexico Border Wall, Foucault Studies 15 (2012): 110–128.
• Violence at the Borders: Nomadic Solidarity and Non-Status Migrant Resistance, Radical Philosophy Review 14, no. 2 (2012): 241–257.
  • Translated into French as "Violence aux frontières," in Frontières, trans. Hélène Clemente (Paris: Éditions D-Fiction, 2014), forthcoming.
• Constructivism and the Future Anterior of Radical Politics, Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies 1 (2010): 73–94.
  • Reviewed by Davina Cooper in Jotwell: Equality (2011).
• A Post-Neoliberal Ecopolitics? Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo, Philosophy Today 54, no. 2 (2010): 179–190.
• Expression, Immanence, and Constructivism: 'Spinozism' and Deleuze and Guattari, Deleuze Studies 2, no. 2 (2008): 201–219.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters.

• Sanctuary, Solidarity, Status! In For a Borderless World, edited by Reece Jones (University of Georgia Press, 2017), 23-33.
• Biopower and Control in Between Deleuze and Foucault, edited by Daniel Smith, Nicolae Morar, and Thomas Nail (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
• Revolution and the Return of Metaphysics in Gilles Deleuze and Metaphysics (Lexington Books, 2013): 207–223.

Invited Articles.

• Lucretius and the Immanence of Motion, The Immanent Frame (2017).
  
• Cosmopolis and the Right to the City, Mediapolis Volume 2, Issue 3.
  
• The Barbarism of the Migrant, Stanford University Press, 2015.
• Michel Foucault, Accelerationist, An und für sich, 2015. 
• Political Theory of the Mask, The Medes, 2013.
• Migrant Cosmopolitanism, e-International Relations, 2013.

Interviews.

• Kinopolitics and the Figure of the Migrant: An Interview with Thomas Nail, The Other Journal, No. 27, 2017.
• We're in the Century of the Migrant, Interview with Colorado Public Radio. Feb, 6. 2016.
  
• The Figure of the Migrant: An Interview with Thomas Nail, Critical-Theory.com (2015)
• Migration—Crisis or New Normal?: An Interview with Thomas Nail and Alison Mountz, The Accidental Geographer, (2015)
• On Migrant Politics: An Interview with Thomas Nail, Hostis: a Journal of Incivility, Issue 2, June 2015.
• Zapatismo 20 Anos Depois: Bate papo com Thomas Nail, A Internacionalista [The Internationalist], December, 2013.
• On Deleuze and Zapatismo: An Interview with Thomas Nail at Critical-Theory.com (2013).
• Building a Sanctuary City: No One is Illegal–Toronto on Non-Status Migrant Justice, Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action 11 (2010): 149–162.

Translations.

• Quentin Meillassoux, History and Event in Alain Badiou, Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy 12 (2011): 1–11.

Transcriptions (ed).

• Gilles Deleuze, Lectures de Cours sur Michel Foucault 1985-1986, La Voix de Gilles Deleuze.

Book Reviews.

• The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism (Re-Press, 2011) Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek, and Graham Harman eds. Scapegoat: Architecture | Landscape | Political Economy 3 (2012): 40.
• Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives (Columbia University Press, 2010) François Dosse, Foucault Studies 14 (2012): 218–222.
• Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century (AK Press, 2008) Chris Spannos, ed. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 20, no. 4 (December 2009): 112–114.
• Deleuze and Environmental Damage: Violence of the Text (Ashgate Publishing, 2006) Mark Halsey, Environmental Philosophy 3, no. 2 (2006): 64–66.

Popular Press.

• We Are Entering a New Epoch: The Century of the Migrant, Aeon: A World of Ideas, 12/14/2016.
• The Hordes are Banging on the Gates of Europe? History News Network, 10/25/15. 
• The Politics of the Mask, The Huffington Post, 11/12/13.
• Child Refugees: The New Barbarians, Pacific Standard: The Science of Society, 8/19/14.