Principal Faculty
- Pronouns she, her
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Website
- Office Location
- Remote work location, TBD
- Office Hours Spring 2024 (Fridays 2:00-4:00pm, virtual by appt)
- Mail Stop Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Courses CRES 113 Music + Performance, CRES 190A Critical Race Feminisms, CRES 101 Research Methods, CRES 70B Black Radical University
Research Interests
She studies and writes about intimacy, sensuality, and beauty as it relates to natural life and metaphysics.
Biography, Education and Training
fahima ife (b. San Bernardino, CA, 1983) is a devotional poet, essayist, and editor. She has a doctorate in Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Masters in Teaching from Emory University, and a Bachelors in Psychology from California State University San Bernardino. She practices full-time as a poet. She is author of the poetry collection, SEPTET FOR THE LUMINOUS ONES (Wesleyan University Press, 2024), the poetry chapbook, ABALONE (Albion Books, 2023), and her debut hybrid poetry collection, MAROON CHOREOGRAPHY (Duke University Press, 2021). She is currently at work on a third poetry collection and a poet's novel.
Selected Publications
Septet for the Luminous Ones (Wesleyan University Press, 2024)
abalone (Albion Books, 2023)
"alchemical sirens" (The Kenyon Review, 2023)
"communicado, two sips" (Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, 2023)
"our general banality" (American Academy of Poets, Poem-A-Day, 2022)
"a run // on black study" (Research in the Teaching of English, 2022)
"grief aesthetics" (liquid blackness, 2022)
"i believe in echoes" (ASAP/J, 2021)
Maroon Choreography (Duke University Press, 2021)
"skilled black hands braid geometric insignia as poetry" (Air/Light, 2021)
"2 poems" (Interim Poetics, 2020)
Teaching Interests
She teaches classes on music and performance, radical storytelling, aesthetics, poetry and poetics, and love.
