Dwight A. McBride

Dwight A. McBride is the Gerald Early Distinguish Professor & Sr. Advisor to the Chancellor at Washington University in St. Louis. Former President of The New School in New York City, where he also held the title of University Professor, McBride became the university's ninth President after serving as Provost at Emory University in addition to other prior leadership roles at Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago. Over nearly three decades in higher education, he has consistently encouraged innovation in scholarship and teaching, launched initiatives to build interdisciplinary strength around global challenges, created environments that foster inclusive excellence, and expanded opportunities for experiential learning. A scholar of race and literary studies, McBride has published award-winning books, essays, articles, and edited volumes that examine connections between race theory, black studies, and identity politics, including James Baldwin Now, Impossible Witnesses: Truth Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony, Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction, and Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality. He is a two-time Lambda Literary Award winner and has been principal investigator on grants from the Teagle Foundation, Arcus Foundation, and National Science Foundation. A native of South Carolina, Dr. McBride received his AB in English and African American Studies from Princeton University, and his MA and PhD in English from the University of California, Los Angeles.