- Centre for the Study of Democracy
- Homelands
About me
Stephanie Ifill is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Westminster. She is the awardee of the University of Westminster’s Quintin Hogg PhD Studentship in Politics and the recipient of the PhD PSA Diverse Voices Scholarship. Stephanie’s work is a political onto-epistemology of coming into voice. Her philosophy, characterised as a profound act of “languaging,” courageously articulates from the intricacies of her entangled terrain.
Stephanie Ifill is warmly immersed in contemplation and writing.
Teaching
Stephanie Ifill’s teaching draws on political and philosophical engagements across Black feminist thought, phenomenology, and originary epistemologies, while attending to vocabularies of loosening, disclosure, attendance, laying, resonance, and unfolding. Moving through diasporic, collapse, and memoratic temporalities, her lectures foreground ontological and political questions with core literatures that include Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon, Sara Ahmed, Martin Heidegger, Audre Lorde, Christina Sharpe, and Édouard Glissant.
Fields: Political Theory / Political Philosophy. Critical Phenomenology. Black / Diasporic Methodologies. Black Feminist Philosophy. Ontology (Political Ontology). Feminist and Decolonial Epistemologies
Research
Research Fieldwork Grant: Diasporic Journeying. Western, Northern and Southern Europe (June 2023 – July 2024) [Professor Geoffrey Petts Memorial Fund; Political Studies Association Diverse Voices Scholarship; PhD Fund, University of Westminster; Global Experience Bursary]
Honorary travel Grant for Annual Conference: Southern Journal of Philosophy Workshop on “Fanon and Phenomenology. Memphis. United States America. (29 March- 1 April, 2023) [Memphis University and the Centre for the Study of Democracy]
Travel Grant for BIPPA Annual Conference 2022: Race, Gender, Identity. Dublin, Ireland (11-12 November, 2022) [the British and Irish Postgraduate Philosophy Association and Global Experience Bursary]
Travel Grant for the Phenomenology Summer School: Kosmos, Nature, Life-World. Venice, Italy (4-8 July, 2022) [Global Experience Bursary]
Travel Grant for the XII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Masquerades. Lisbon, Portugal (27 June – 2 July , 2022) [Globally Engaged Research]
Travel Grant for Embodied (un)certainties: Producing knowledge from the margin. A PhD workshop on affective queerfeminist epistemologies. Vienna, Austria ( 28 – 29 April, 2022) [Faculty of Social Sciences, the research platform GAIN, the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy (VDP), the Institute of Philosophy and the Centre for the Study of Democracy]
Publications
For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.