DEPARTMENT OF BLACK STUDIES

Biography:

Corbin is an educator and writer from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He received his BA in 2020 from Howard University where he majored in Philosophy. Before joining Northwestern’s Black Studies department, he spent four years pursuing a PhD in Philosophy (also at Northwestern). Presently, he is preparing an article which explores homoeroticism, the slave, and psychoanalytic and anthropological forms of consumption. In addition, he is working on a presentation investigating the relationship between psychoanalysis, antiblackness, and (children’s) black horror film. 

Research interests: Critical Philosophy of Race, Continental Philosophy, Black Critical Theory (afro pessimism and nihilism), Aesthetics, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Political Theology, Philosophical Anthropology, and Anti-Colonial Philosophy.

My work is situated at the methodological intersection of black critical theory and continental philosophy to engage Anthropology, History, and Caribbean oral traditions and literature to theorize blackness. Thematically, my research focuses on a cluster of topics such as negativity, the trickster figure, myth, imagination, and cosmology. I am concerned with how these speculative themes shape philosophical perspectives on anthropology, religion & science, race, and the arts (especially film and painting). In addition, I am interested in German romanticism, demonology, psychoanalysis, African diasporic folklore, and 20th century French philosophy.

Research Interests:

Critical Philosophy of Race, Continental Philosophy, Black Critical Theory (afro pessimism and nihilism), Aesthetics, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Political Theology, Philosophical Anthropology, and
Anti-Colonial Philosophy