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Ifeanyi Awachie
Faculty
Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, and Arts
Cinema, Television, and Emerging Media Studies Department
- Adjunct Professor
Education
Yale University
B.A., English Language and Literature (Writing Concentration)
SOAS University of London
M.A., Global Creative and Cultural Industries
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Ph.D. Candidate, Cinema Studies
About the Professor
Ifeanyi Awachie (if-AHHn-yee AH-wah-CHYAY) is a Nigeria-born, Atlanta-raised writer, filmmaker, and scholar.
Dr. Ifeanyi Awachie is a Nigeria-born, Atlanta-raised writer, scholar, and filmmaker. She holds a PhD in Cinema Studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her research contemplates the role of performativity in diasporic Nigerian women's installation art. Dr. Awachie is the writer and director of "This Thing Is Not for You" (2022), a short film that has screened at the New York African Film Festival, the San Francisco Black Film Festival, the Morehouse College Human Rights Festival, and beyond. Dr. Awachie previously worked as Assistant Curator at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. She founded AFRICA SALON, a contemporary African arts festival, as an undergraduate at Yale University. She has given talks and lectures and sat on panels at institutions including The New School, the Slade School of Fine Art, the Royal College of Art, SOAS University of London, Tate Modern, and the University of Groningen. Her writing appears in publications including Blackstar Film Festival’s Seen Journal, ASAP/J, Feminist Review, and Burnaway.
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EXPERTISE
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Black film
- African film
- Black feminism
- Video installations
- Installation art
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COURSES
Courses Taught
- Survey of African Cinema I
- Contemporary African Women's Film
- Introduction to Film
- Introduction to TV
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PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
Conference Presentation
“An Unhurried Mood: Slowness, Abundance, and Refusal in Transnational Nigerian Women’s Video Installations,” paper presented at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) annual conference, October 2024, New York, NY.
Review
“the end is near, the end is the beginning at SITE, The Goat Farm, Atlanta,” installation review in Burnaway, October 2024.
Conference Presentation
“Moving Through the Niger Delta: Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Sensuous Paradigm Shift,” paper pre- sented at the Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference, February 2024, New Orleans, LA.Book Chapter
Awachie, Ifeanyi. “‘I Just Want it to Feel Like Something Real’: What Museums Can Learn from Independent Black Feminist Curating.” Institutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces, edited by Marianna Pegno and Kantara Souffrant, Routledge, 2024.
Peer-reviewed journal article
Awachie, I. (2020). Archiving the African Feminist Festival Through Oral Communication and Social Media. Feminist Review, 125(1), 88-93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778920911368
Article
Awachie, Ifeanyi. “Maps of Attachment: On re-orienting our language(s) for African art and culture.” Seen Journal, Issue 6, 2 Oct. 2023, https://www.blackstarfest.org/seen/read/issue-006/maps-of-attachment/.
Exhibition review
Awachie, Ifeanyi. “Beyond a Punctuated History.” ASAP/J, 2022, https://asapjournal.com/review/beyond-a-punctuated-history-ifeanyi/.
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ORGANIZATIONS
ORGANIZATIONS
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
- Honorable Mention, ASAP Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize 2024
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Black film
- African film
- Black feminism
- Video installations
- Installation art
Courses Taught
- Survey of African Cinema I
- Contemporary African Women's Film
- Introduction to Film
- Introduction to TV
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
Conference Presentation
“An Unhurried Mood: Slowness, Abundance, and Refusal in Transnational Nigerian Women’s Video Installations,” paper presented at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) annual conference, October 2024, New York, NY.
Review
“the end is near, the end is the beginning at SITE, The Goat Farm, Atlanta,” installation review in Burnaway, October 2024.
Conference Presentation
“Moving Through the Niger Delta: Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Sensuous Paradigm Shift,” paper pre- sented at the Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference, February 2024, New Orleans, LA.
Book Chapter
Awachie, Ifeanyi. “‘I Just Want it to Feel Like Something Real’: What Museums Can Learn from Independent Black Feminist Curating.” Institutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces, edited by Marianna Pegno and Kantara Souffrant, Routledge, 2024.
Peer-reviewed journal article
Awachie, I. (2020). Archiving the African Feminist Festival Through Oral Communication and Social Media. Feminist Review, 125(1), 88-93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778920911368
Article
Awachie, Ifeanyi. “Maps of Attachment: On re-orienting our language(s) for African art and culture.” Seen Journal, Issue 6, 2 Oct. 2023, https://www.blackstarfest.org/seen/read/issue-006/maps-of-attachment/.
Exhibition review
Awachie, Ifeanyi. “Beyond a Punctuated History.” ASAP/J, 2022, https://asapjournal.com/review/beyond-a-punctuated-history-ifeanyi/.
ORGANIZATIONS
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
- Honorable Mention, ASAP Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize 2024