Philosophy Annual Lecture--Violence and Death-Driven Politics
John E. Drabinski is Professor in the Department of African American and Africana Studies, with a joint appointment in the Department of English. His writing and teaching focus on the philosophical dimensions of the Black Atlantic intellectual tradition, with particular emphasis on postcolonial theory, the francophone Caribbean, and expressive culture in the United States.
Drabinski holds an A.B. (1991) in Philosophy and English from Seattle University and a M.A. (1993) and Ph.D. (1996) in Philosophy from University of Memphis, where he was trained in post-structuralist thought and the foundations of critical race theory. He was formerly Charles Hamilton Houston 1915 Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College and was a fellow at The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University in 2013-1014.
He has published a number of books, including most recently Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss (Minnesota 2019) and Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other (Edinburgh 2012), which was awarded the Frantz Fanon Book Prize from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He has edited books and journal issues dedicated to key figures in Atlantic thought, including Frantz Fanon, Jean-Luc Godard, James Baldwin, and Édouard Glissant, as well as dozens of articles on themes of memory, language, culture, and politics.
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