Dwight A. McBride (born 1967) an American academic administrator and scholar of race and literary studies. Since April 16, 2020, he has served as the ninth president of
The New School
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.
McBride previously served as provost, executive vice president for academic affairs, and
Asa Griggs Candler
Asa Griggs Candler (December 30, 1851 – March 12, 1929) was an American business tycoon and politician who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for $238.98 from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. Candler founded The Coca-C ...
Professor of
African American studies at
Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...
.
Early life and education
Dwight Antonio McBride was born in
Honea Path, South Carolina
Honea Path is a town primarily in Anderson County, South Carolina and extending into Abbeville County in the northwest part of the state. The population was 3,597 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Honea Path is located at (34.447400, -82.393044).
A ...
and raised in
Belton, South Carolina. He graduated from
Belton-Honea Path High School
Belton-Honea Path High School (BHP) is a comprehensive, co-educational, public secondary school located in Honea Path, South Carolina, United States. It is the only public high school serving Honea Path and Belton. The school is accredited by th ...
in 1986.
McBride graduated from
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
, 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
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.
Career
McBride taught at the
University of Pittsburgh
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, then served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the
University of Illinois at Chicago
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from 2007 to 2010.
He next served as
Daniel Hale Williams
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Professor of
African American Studies,
English
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* English language
* English people
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, &
Performance Studies
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at
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
Charte ...
,
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
Asa Griggs Candler (December 30, 1851 – March 12, 1929) was an American business tycoon and politician who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for $238.98 from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. Candler founded The Coca-C ...
Professor of African American Studies and Distinguished Affiliated Professor of English at
Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...
. He joined
The New School
The New School is a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1919 as The New School for Social Research with an original mission dedicated to academic freedom and intellectual inquiry and a home for progressive thinkers. ...
as President on April 16, 2020.
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
New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.
History
NYU Press was founded in 1916 by the then chancellor of NYU, Elmer Ellsworth Brown.
Directors
* Arthur Huntington Nason, 1916–1 ...
, 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
{{DEFAULTSORT:McBride, Dwight A.
Living people
Northwestern University faculty
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Emory University faculty
Black studies scholars
American academics of English literature
LGBT studies academics
1967 births
Academics from South Carolina
People from Honea Path, South Carolina
People from Belton, South Carolina