Habiba Ibrahim

Habiba Ibrahim is a Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Washington. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University at Albany (SUNY, 2005) and a B.A. in English from Brooklyn College (CUNY, 1998). Her research focuses on 20th and 21st-century African American literary studies, analyzing how texts engage with social contradictions and temporal frameworks. Her work interrogates Black age as an 'untimely' construct shaped by historical violence and liberal humanist time-measures.

• Education: PhD English (2005), SUNY Albany; BA English (1998), CUNY Brooklyn

Her major publications include Black Age (2021), which explores Black temporal disjunction, and Troubling the Family (2012), critiquing multiracialism’s entanglement with feminist disunity. She has received awards for her scholarship on African American cultural studies and literary criticism.

• Awards: Pop Culture Association Honorable Mention (2022), Darwin T. Turner Prize (2016)

Her teaching and research intersect with Black Studies, feminist theory, and cultural analysis. She serves as an affiliated faculty member in programs such as the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Program in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies.