John E. Drabinski

Professor of African American Studies and English at U of Maryland. New book with UMinnesota Press: Glissant and the Middle Passage

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

What happens if we turn to James Baldwin, not just for the amazing quotations and excellent photos, but as a critical theorist?

@jdrabinski joins @NewBooksNetwork to discuss 'So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic'
https://t.co/pj7nMkjTfb

#BlackHistoryMonth

[Fordham Press @FordhamPress]

At the Margins of Nihilism: Deconstruction and Social Death, by John E. Drabinski #NewRelease https://t.co/uG2Kzw8nDr

[The Black Studies Podcast @blstpodcast]

Great new podcast, just out ... Austin Jackson talks with Ashley Newby about the fullness of Black Studies as a human project, the importance of study, and the horizons opened up by the field.

Listen @ Spotify or your fave streaming service:

https://t.co/HrKMOhHjPu

[John E. Drabinski @jdrabinski]

This was super interesting, so happy Mary made the time to chat!

[The Black Studies Podcast @blstpodcast]

Great new podcast out, with @DrMaryHicks. Thoughtful conversation exploring, among many things, how Black Studies expands the notion of archive for historians and historical study. Listen in:

https://t.co/p9tf7pGz7v

[Charles W McKinney, Jr. @CharlesWMcKinn2]

Thanks to the Black Studies podcast for having me on. Always good to chop it up about the field. @jdrabinski, you’re a great interviewer.

https://t.co/s6Usg57eHS

[Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy @jffp_journal]

New issue of the Journal: double issue with essays ranging from black Atlantic literary theory to early phenomenology to politics, hermeneutics, and deconstruction.

As always, no paywall, so browse, read, and share widely. Fantastic stuff in this issue.

https://t.co/G0DbOnOTIl

[John E. Drabinski @jdrabinski]

@Unemployedneg The way we'd have to rewrite Of Grammatology with such interesting new insights...writing without even the specter of voice? Damn. Wish this were true and not a racist, paranoiac ramble.

[John E. Drabinski @jdrabinski]

@kdrabinski @MakeItAQuote quote

[Marisa Parham @amplify285]

So wow, this happened.

Needless to say, continuing our vision for seeding and cultivating joyful, creative, and incisive scholarship has us over the moon here at AADHum. We are deeply grateful for the opportunity to steward resources committed to research in Black Study +

[John E. Drabinski @jdrabinski]

@peacheslechat Love this photo and congrats on the show!

[John E. Drabinski @jdrabinski]

@kdrabinski TBF the answer was no, so, whatever

[Brian Hochman @brian_hochman]

I've seen enough, time to vent:

None of the end-of-humanities/criticism discourse--NONE--has even remotely engaged with the fact that minoritized (e.g., AfAm, Latinx, Indigenous Studies) and interdisciplinary fields (e.g., Environmental Studies) are BOOMING right now.

[Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy @jffp_journal]

Du Bois, born on this day in 1868 - from the conclusion to Black Folk Then and Now:

"The proletariat of the world consists not simply of white European and American workers but overwhelmingly of the dark workers of Asia, Africa, the islands of the sea, and South and Central...

[John E. Drabinski @jdrabinski]

@pcpeay @AASD_UMD @UofMaryland Welcome! We are so excited to have you in the department!

[John E. Drabinski @jdrabinski]

This is such a great book

[Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy @jffp_journal]

New podcast: John Drabinski hosts Mari Crabtree to talk about her book My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching, just out w/@yalepress - long discussion about trauma, memory, lynching, blues as critical concept, and how to read silences:

https://t.co/oAHT4eyGPo

[Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy @jffp_journal]

From 2011 in the Journal: a piece on Édouard Glissant by editor John E. Drabinski (@jdrabinski), in memory of the thinker in the year of his passing, framing Glissant's work in terms of "shoreline thinking." Read w/o paywall here:

https://t.co/pVSFR6nKd0

[John E. Drabinski @jdrabinski]

This is a fantastic book and I loved discussing it with @phdshammy29

[Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy @jffp_journal]

New podcast out: John Drabinski hosts Shanna Benjamin (@phdshammy29) to discuss her book Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nelly Y. McKay, out w/@UNC_Press

Listen here or via your fave streaming service under Conversations in Atlantic Theory
https://t.co/JWJNGHdtZy

[John E. Drabinski @jdrabinski]

Fresh out

[Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy @jffp_journal]

From the forum on Black Skin, White Masks in the new Journal issue, John E. Drabinski explores the perhaps unexpected convergence between Fanon and V.S. Naipaul re: the meaning of the Caribbean - "Martinique Between Fanon and Naipaul." Read w/o paywall:

https://t.co/fPt5h6GJkH

[Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy @jffp_journal]

From the new issue of the Journal, a smart and interesting essay by Angela H. Brown on Glissant and Spinoza - exploring the function of the abyss in ÉG's work. Read w/o paywall here:

https://t.co/sheSNdxKEu

[John E. Drabinski @jdrabinski]

This is a great collection of essays, such a pleasure to put together as editor.

[Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy @jffp_journal]

New issue of Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy is live - w/o paywall, always. Essays on Glissant, Spinoza, Irigaray, Beauvoir, and Améry, as well as a forum on Black Skin, White Masks.

Read the Editor's Note by @jdrabinski here, share widely!

https://t.co/xw5bQ9Kaaq