Dwight A. McBride (born 1967) is an American academic administrator and scholar of race and literary studies.
[1][2] McBride previously served as provost, executive vice president for academic affairs, and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of African American studies at Emory University.
[5] He next served as Daniel Hale Williams Professor of African American Studies, English, & Performance Studies at Northwestern University,[6] as well as Dean of the Graduate School[7][8] and Associate Provost of Graduate Education.
[17][18] 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),[19] A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader (Mississippi Press, 2006),[20][21] Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity (Univ.
[24][25] McBride is one of the founding editors and current co-editor of the open access scholarly journal, James Baldwin Review (Manchester Univ.