Dwight A. McBride


Dwight A. McBride is a leading scholar of race and literary studies, where his research and works examine connections between race theory, black studies, and identity politics. He is also a university administrator. He joined The New School as President on April 16, 2020. Dr. McBride previously served as 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 since July 2017.

Education

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.

Career

McBridge 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.
McBride is an award-winning author of numerous books and edited collections. His works include James Baldwin Now, Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony, the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award-nominated essay collection Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essay on Race and Sexuality, and the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Black Like Us: A Century of Gay, Lesbian, and Bi-Sexual African American Fiction.
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”, A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader, Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity, and the Lambda Literary Award-winning book The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism in U.S. Slave Culture.
McBride is one of the founding editors and current co-editor of the open access scholarly journal, James Baldwin Review, and co-editor of The New Black Studies book series at the University of Illinois Press.

Works