People
ProfessorsDwight A. McBride |
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601 South Morgan Street (MC 162) |
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African American Studies and Gender and Women's Studies
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Dwight A. McBride is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of African American Studies and Gender and Women's Studies. His published essays are in the areas of race theory and black queer studies. He is author of Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony (2001, NYU Press), which was nominated for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality (2005 NYU Press). He is the editor of James Baldwin Now (1999, NYU Press), co-editor of a special issue of the journal Callaloo titled Plum Nelly: New Essays in Black Queer Studies (Winter 2000), co-editor of the Lambda Literary Award-winning fiction anthology Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bi-Sexual African American Fiction (2002 Cleis Press), co-editor of the award-winning special issue of Public Culture titled One Hundred Years Of The Souls Of Black Folk: A Celebration of W.E.B. DuBois, and co-editor of Melvin Dixon Critical Reader. He is currently at work on two new book manuscripts tentatively titled: Poetics, Politics, and Phillis Wheatley and White Lies in the Republic: Race, Sexuality, and the Law.
PUBLICATIONS
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A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader |
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Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality |
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Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction |
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Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony |
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James Baldwin Now |
