Biography
Zalika U. Ibaorimi (she/they), from Philadelphia, PA, is a multidisciplinary artist, PhD of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and 2021-2023 Carter G. Woodson Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia, who engages Black material and digital publics as landscapes to trace the Human sexual geographies between the relation of the Black femme and spectator. Her work “The (Ho)rror of It All: Ganja & Hess, Summer Walker and the Soundtrack of Ho Ontologies” was published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies in 2021.
Research Interests
The Human, Visual Culture, Art & Performance, Black Spectatorship/Surveillance, Black Queer Feminism, Haunting, the Black Femme, Black Sexual Logics, Black Queer Theory, Horror, Black Digital Intimacy, Black Porn/Sex Work Studies, Sound Studies, Experimental Methods, Black Ontologies/Black Geographies, Film
Research Description
Ibaorimi uses Black gender and sexuality analytics to engage Visual Culture Studies through the logics of Black Studies and Black Porn/Sex Work Studies.
They specialize in performance, haunting, Black queerness, ontology, horror, flesh, sonics, the Human and deviant modalities of Blackness. As a scholar and performance-based photographer, she uses the experimental approaches of research-creation to engage Black Study.
Courses Taught
Beauty & Culture
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Recent Publications
Ibaorimi, Z. U. (2021). The (Ho)rror of It All: Ganja & Hess, Summer Walker and the Soundtrack of Ho Ontologies. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 33(4), 34-38. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.34