Dwight A. McBride

Dwight A. McBride
Alma mater Princeton University
University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation Professor, university administrator
Employer Emory University
Notable work 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.)
Title Provost
Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of African American Studies
Distinguished Affiliated Professor of English
Awards Lambda Literary Award for best fiction anthology

Dwight A. McBride is a scholar of English and African American studies and an university administrator. He serves as Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of African American Studies and Distinguished Affiliated Professor of English at Emory University.

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.[1]

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.[1] He next served 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] On July 1, 2017, he became Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of African American Studies and Distinguished Affiliated Professor of English at Emory University.[5]

McBride's essay collection Why I Hate Abercrombie & 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.[1]

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

  1. 1 2 3 "The Next Provost at Emory University in Atlanta". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. 2017-05-08. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  2. 1 2 "Dwight A. McBride: Department of African American Studies - Northwestern University". www.afam.northwestern.edu. Northwestern University. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Gregory, Ted (September 26, 2014). "NU grad school asks applicants' sexual identity". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
  5. ↑ "Dwight McBride named provost of Emory University - Northwestern Now". news.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  6. ↑ Ongiri, Amy Abugo (2000-11-01). "James Baldwin Now (review)". symploke. 8 (1): 233–233. doi:10.1353/sym.2000.0020. ISSN 1534-0627.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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. JSTOR 27501350.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ Wellington, Darryl Lorenzo (March–April 2005). "At Arm's Length: the Black Community and Its Gay Men". The Crisis. pp. 46–47.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ "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.
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