John Drabinski

John Drabinski is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland. His research examines Caribbean philosophy, postcolonial theory, and critical race studies, with emphasis on Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant, and James Baldwin.

Key contributions include decolonizing Levinasian ethics, theorizing the Middle Passage as philosophical abyss, and analyzing diaspora identity. He received the Frantz Fanon Book Prize (2014) for Levinas and the Postcolonial.

His publications explore: (1) Trauma and memory in Caribbean thought, (2) Ethics of alterity in colonial contexts, and (3) Cinematic representations of difference. No advising roles or labs are mentioned.