Dwight A. McBride | |
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Born | 1967 (age 57–58) |
Academic background | |
Education | Princeton University (AB) University of California, Los Angeles (MA, PhD) |
Academic work | |
Notable works | Why I Hate Abercrombie &Fitch:Essays on Race and Sexuality Impossible Witnesses:Truth,Abolitionism and Slave Testimony Black Like Us:A Century of Lesbian,Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction(co-ed.) |
9th President of The New School | |
In office April 16,2020 –August 15,2023 | |
Preceded by | David E. Van Zandt |
Succeeded by | Donna Shalala (interim) |
Dwight A. McBride (born 1967) is an American academic administrator and scholar of African American and literary studies. He has been a distinguished professor,and advisor to the chancellor at Washington University in St. Louis since 2023. [1] From April 16,2020,to August 2023,he served as the ninth president of The New School. [2] [3] McBride previously served as provost,executive vice president for academic affairs,and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of African-American studies at Emory University.
Dwight A. McBride was born in Honea Path,South Carolina and raised in Belton,South Carolina. [4] He graduated from Belton-Honea Path High School in 1986. [5]
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. [6]
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. [6] He next served as Daniel Hale Williams Professor of African American Studies,English,&Performance Studies at Northwestern University, [7] as well as Dean of the Graduate School [8] [9] and Associate Provost of Graduate Education. [7] 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. [10] He joined The New School as president on April 16,2020,and announced his departure in 2023. [11]
McBride is an author of numerous books and edited collections. His works include James Baldwin Now (NYU Press,1999), [12] [13] Impossible Witnesses:Truth,Abolitionism,and Slave Testimony (NYU Press,2002), [14] [15] the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award-nominated essay collection Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch:Essay on Race and Sexuality (NYU Press,2005), [16] [17] and the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Black Like Us:A Century of Gay,Lesbian,and Bi-Sexual African American Fiction (Cleis Press,2011). [18] [19]
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), [20] A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader (Mississippi Press,2006), [21] [22] Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity (Univ. of Illinois Press,2013), [23] [24] and the Lambda Literary Award-winning book The Delectable Negro:Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture (NYU Press,2014). [25] [26]
McBride is one of the founding editors and current co-editor of the open access scholarly journal,James Baldwin Review (Manchester Univ. Press), [27] [28] and co-editor of The New Black Studies book series at the University of Illinois Press. [29] [30]
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