Rachelle Rahme
Part-Time Faculty
Email
rahmer@newschool.edu
Office Location
B - 65 West 11th Street
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Rachelle Rahmé is a Lebanese-American writer and scholar interested in collaborative liberation methodologies. Her research interests include media philosophy, independent film production, film and literary avant-gardes, archival research methods, speculative fiction, auto-fiction, poetics, and hybrid-forms.
Rahmé is active in independent small press publishing. She is an editor at Blush Lit and the author of several chapbooks from 72 Press, Wonder, Belladonna Collective, and Spiral Editions, as well as a speculative fiction novella from Aventures Ltd and a collection of translations of the occupation poetry of philosopher Georges Bataille from o-blēk. Her first full length collection of poetry is being published by Fonograf Editions in October 2025.
Rahmé holds a BFA in Film from New York University, an MA in Philosophy from The New School, and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. She was a recipient of The Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship in 2021-2022.
Rahmé has been active in NYC performance networks for many years. She has presented her sound work at Issue Project Room, The Kitchen, The Stone, MOMA PS1, Roulette, and Microscope Gallery, among many other venues.