Dr. Dwight A. McBride
Department Chair Leon Forrest Professor of African American Studies & Professor of English and Communication Studies Address: African American Studies Department 2-320 Kresge Hall 1880 S. Campus Dr. Evanston, IL 60208-2209 Phone: 847-467-1662 Fax: 847-491-4803 Email: dmcbride@northwestern.edu

Courses:

AFAM 101-6 Freshmen Seminar

AFAM 350-0 African American Literary Criticism and Theory

Degree:

UCLA Ph.D.

Current Research:

Poetics, Politics, and Phillis Wheatley

Recent Awards:

2006
Nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch

Nominee for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch

2004
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies: Passing-the-torch-Award

2003
Lambda Literary Award

2003
Monette-Horwitz Achievement Award

Recent Publications:

	A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader
	Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality
	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)