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Dwight McBride

Dwight McBride


Leon Forrest Professor and Chair of African American Studies & Professor of English and Communication Studies


308 Kresge Hall
Telephone: (847) 467-1662
Fax: (847) 491-4803
E-mail: dmcbride@northwestern.edu



Courses:

Literature, Gender & The Politics of Racial Respectability

Early African American Literature

Degree:

UCLA Ph.D.

Current Research:

Poetics, Politics, and Phillis Wheatley

Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality
in the U.S.

Recent Awards:

2003 Lambda Literary Award

2003 Monette-Horwitz Achievement Award

Recent Publications:

Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bi-Sexual Fiction (2002 Cleis Press)

Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony (2001, NYU Press)

James Baldwin Now (1999, NYU Press)

Callaloo, Editor, “Plum Nelly: New Essays in Black Queer Studies” (Winter 2000)


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