Dwight A. McBride

Dwight A. McBride is Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs at Emory University.^[1] Until July 1, 2017, he served as Daniel Hale Williams Professor of African American Studies, English, & Performance Studies at Northwestern University,^[2] as well as Dean of the Graduate School^[3][4] and Associate Provost.^[2] Previously he had taught at the University of Pittsburgh, then served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2007 to 2010.^[5]

McBride attended Princeton University, majoring in English and African American studies. He then earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles.^[5]

McBride's essay collection Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality was a nominee for the Lambda Literary Award and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His book Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism and Slave Testimony was also a nominated for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and his co-edited volume Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction won the Lambda Literary Award for best fiction anthology.^[5]

Works

• ed. James Baldwin Now (1999)^[6][7][8]
• Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony (New York University Press, 2002)^[9][10]
• Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality (Sexual Cultures Series, 2005)^{[11][12][13][14]}
• ed. Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction with Devon W. Carbado, Don Weise, and Evelyn C. White (2002)
• A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader with Justin A. Joyce (2010)

References