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Dwight A. McBride (born 1967) is an American academic administrator and scholar of race and literary studies. From April 16, 2020, to August 2023, he served as the ninth president of The New School. McBride previously served as provost, executive vice president for academic affairs, and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of African American studies at Emory University.

Early life and education

Dwight A. McBride was born in Honea Path, South Carolina and raised in Belton, South Carolina. He graduated from Belton-Honea Path High School in 1986.

McBride graduated from Princeton University, where he studied English and African American studies. He then earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Career

McBride 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. He next served as Daniel Hale Williams Professor of African American Studies, English, & Performance Studies at Northwestern University, as well as Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Provost of Graduate Education. On July 1, 2017, he became Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of African American Studies and Distinguished Affiliated Professor of English at Emory University. He joined The New School as president on April 16, 2020, and announced his departure in 2023.

McBride is an author of numerous books and edited collections. His works include James Baldwin Now (NYU Press, 1999), Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony (NYU Press, 2002), the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award-nominated essay collection Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essay on Race and Sexuality (NYU Press, 2005), and the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Black Like Us: A Century of Gay, Lesbian, and Bi-Sexual African American Fiction (Cleis Press, 2011).

McBride has also co-edited several collections and posthumous volumes, including a special issue of the journal Callaloo entitled "Plum Nelly: New Essays in Queer Black Studies" (2000), A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader (Mississippi Press, 2006), Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2013), and the Lambda Literary Award-winning book The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture (NYU Press, 2014).

McBride is one of the founding editors and current co-editor of the open access scholarly journal, James Baldwin Review (Manchester Univ. Press), and co-editor of The New Black Studies book series at the University of Illinois Press.

Works

• ed. James Baldwin Now (1999)
• Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony (New York University Press, 2002)
• Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality (Sexual Cultures Series, 2005)
• 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

1. Cho, Seungeun (October 11, 2019). "McBride to Leave Emory in Spring 2020 after 2 Years as Provost". Retrieved April 17, 2020.
2. Rodriguez-Mora, Bianca (2023-06-08). "Dwight A. McBride to step down as The New School President at the end of the summer". The New School Free Press. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
3. McBride, Dwight Antonio (1996). Impossible Witnesses: Restrictive and Resistive Discourses on Nineteenth-century Slavery and Abolitionism. University of California, Los Angeles.
4. "Chicago Gay History". www.chicagogayhistory.com. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
5. ^ "The Next Provost at Emory University in Atlanta". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. 2017-05-08. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
6. ^ "Dwight A. McBride: Department of African American Studies - Northwestern University". www.afam.northwestern.edu. Northwestern University. Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
7. Patel, Vimal (2015-06-05). "A University Banks on Ph.D. Stipends to Better Compete With Its Peers". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
8. Gregory, Ted (September 26, 2014). "NU grad school asks applicants' sexual identity". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
9. "Dwight McBride named provost of Emory University - Northwestern Now". news.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
10. York, The New School 66 West 12th Street New; Ny 10011 (2023-06-08). "A Message From The Board Chair: Important Leadership Update". Messages to the Community. Retrieved 2023-06-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
11. McBride, Dwight (August 1999). James Baldwin Now. NYU Press. p. 356. ISBN 9780814756188.
12. McBride, Dwight (August 1999). James Baldwin Now. NYU Press. p. 356. ISBN 9780814756188.
13. McBride, Dwight (February 2002). Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony. NYU Press. p. 207. ISBN 9780814756058.
14. McBride, Dwight (February 2002). Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony. NYU Press. p. 208. ISBN 9780814756058.
15. McBride, Dwight (February 2005). Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch Essays On Race and Sexuality. NYU Press. p. 251. ISBN 9780814756867.
16. McBride, Dwight (February 2005). Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality. NYU Press. p. 251. ISBN 9780814756867.
17. McBride, Dwight (2003). BLACK LIKE US: A CENTURY OF LESBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION. Cleis Press. ISBN 9781573441087.
18. McBride, Dwight (2003). BLACK LIKE US: A CENTURY OF LESBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION. Cleis Press. ISBN 9781573441087.
19. McBride, Dwight (2000). "Plum Nelly: New Essays in Queer Black Studies". Callaloo. Archived from the original on 2019-12-11. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
20. McBride, Dwight (2006). A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader. Mississippi Press. p. 208. ISBN 9781604738636.
21. McBride, Dwight (2006). A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader. Mississippi Press. p. 208. ISBN 9781604738636.
22. McBride, Dwight (2013). Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity. University of Illinois Press. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-252-07951-1.
23. McBride, Dwight (2013). Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity. University of Illinois Press. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-252-07951-1.
24. McBride, Dwight (June 2014). The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture. NYU Press. p. 320. ISBN 9780814794623.
25. McBride, Dwight (June 2014). The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture. NYU Press. p. 320. ISBN 9780814794623.
26. McBride, Dwight (2019). James Baldwin Review. Manchester University Press.
27. McBride, Dwight. James Baldwin Review. Manchester University Press.
28. McBride, Dwight. The New Black Studies Series. University of Illinois Press.
29. McBride, Dwight. The New Black Studies Series (PDF). University of Illinois Press. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-11. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
30. Ongiri, Amy Abugo (2000-11-01). "James Baldwin Now (review)". Symploke. 8 (1): 233. doi:10.1353/sym.2000.0020. ISSN 1534-0627. S2CID 144631120.
31. Steward, Douglas (2000). "Review of James Baldwin Now". The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. 33 (2): 94–96. doi:10.2307/1315204. JSTOR 1315204.
32. Field, Douglas (2001-09-01). "James Baldwin Now. Ed. Dwight A. McBride. New York: New York UP, 1999. x 427 pages. $55 cloth; $19.50 paper". MELUS. 26 (3): 250–252. doi:10.2307/3185571. ISSN 0163-755X. JSTOR 3185571.
33. Zagarell, Sandra A. (2003-08-22). "Impossible Witness: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony (review)". Callaloo. 26 (3): 920–923. doi:10.1353/cal.2003.0114. ISSN 1080-6512. S2CID 159525763.
34. Saville, Julie (2003). Eyerman, Ron; McBride, Dwight A.; Wright, William D. (eds.). "Historical Memories of Slavery in the Aftermath of Reconstruction". Journal of American Ethnic History. 22 (4): 72–76. doi:10.2307/27501350. JSTOR 27501350. S2CID 254480974.
35. Bradway, Tyler (2006-09-26). "Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality (review)". College Literature. 33 (4): 223–225. doi:10.1353/lit.2006.0049. ISSN 1542-4286. S2CID 144583713.
36. Wellington, Darryl Lorenzo (March–April 2005). "At Arm's Length: the Black Community and Its Gay Men". The Crisis. pp. 46–47.
37. Polk, Khary (March 2007). "WHY I HATE ABERCROMBIE AND FITCH: ESSAY ON RACE AND SEXUALITY IN AMERICA". Women's Studies Quarterly. 35 (1/2): 310.
38. "Nonfiction Book Review: WHY I HATE ABERCROMBIE & FITCH: Essays on Race and Sexuality by Dwight A. McBride, Author . New York Univ. $19 (267p) ISBN 978-0-8147-5686-7". Publishers Weekly. December 20, 2004. Retrieved 2017-07-17.

• Living people
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• University of California, Los Angeles alumni
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• American academics of English literature
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• Academics from South Carolina
• People from Honea Path, South Carolina
• People from Belton, South Carolina