Fahima Ife
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
225-578-3047
ife@lsu.edu
236-C Allen Hall
Biography
Fahima Indigo Ife is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and affiliated faculty in African and African American Studies (AAAS) and Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) at Louisiana State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Languages, Literacies, and Cultures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She researches and teaches at the intersections of race and gender, sexuality, class, spirituality, and eroticism. She is working on a manuscript about 20th and 21st century Queer Black femme and non-binary media formations and everyday archive creations via singing and songwriting, storytelling, dancing, filmmaking, space making, protesting, conjuring, ignoring, healing, and remembering.
Area(s) of Interest
Black Feminism, queer theory, Africana/Black Studies, Women's & Gender studies, Existentialism, Pleasure pedagogies, qualitative research methodologies, metaphysics