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Habiba Ibrahim is a Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Washington, specializing in African American literary studies from the 20th and 21st centuries. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University at Albany (SUNY) in 2005 and her B.A. from Brooklyn College (CUNY) in 1998. Her research focuses on the intersections of African American culture, feminist theory, and literary criticism, with particular attention to the ways in which literary texts—both fictional and nonfictional—explore societal contradictions and emergent forms of thought. Ibrahim's recent publication, 'Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans Time Black Life' (NYU Press, 2021), analyzes the historical conceptions of time as they relate to the Black diaspora and critiques the liberal humanist frameworks that dominate them. She contends that the phases of the transatlantic slave trade created a malleable understanding of time that served the needs of enslavement. Her earlier book, 'Troubling Family: Promise Personhood Rise Multiracialism' (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), examines the multiracial movement and its complicated relations to second-wave feminism, highlighting the obstacles to interracial feminist alliances. Ibrahim has been recognized for her contributions to scholarship, receiving the Honorable Mention for the Pop Culture Association's Harry Shaw Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for her book 'Black Age' in 2022 and the Darwin T. Turner Prize from the African American Review in 2016 for her essay 'Any Age: Vampires Oceanic Lifespans.'
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