Joe Lockard
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Phone: 480-727-6096
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Ross-Blakley Hall 345 PO Box 871401 TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
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Mail code: 1401Campus: Tempe
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Joe Lockard joined the English department at Arizona State University in fall of 2002. He obtained his doctorate from University of California, Berkeley, in 2000. He has taught at nine colleges and universities in four countries, including: University of California-Santa Cruz, University of California-Berkeley, Mills College, Kibbutzim College of Education (Tel Aviv, Israel), Bet Gordon Teachers College (Haifa, Israel), Palacky University (Olomouc, Czech Republic), and Sichuan University (Chengdu, China). Before joining the department, he spent two years teaching as a U.C. President's Faculty Fellow in the University of California-Davis English department.
Professor Lockard researches antislavery literature and human rights philosophy in relation to 19th-century American literature. In 2003 he established the Antislavery Literature Project to digitize and make accessible a range of antislavery literature in a format that is both scholarly and accessible. After millions of visits, the project went offline in 2018 but continues in other directions, especially a slave narrative translation initiative undertaken in cooperation with faculty from Xi'an Jiaotong University. With Shi Penglu, he co-edited three volumes of American slave narratives (2019, 2015) published by Shanghai Jiaotong University Press. Current Project collaborative work centers on the transatlantic and transpacific influence of the literature of US slavery.
His work areas include 19th and 20th-century American literature; African American literature and comparative American ethnic literatures; prison studies; cultural studies; Internet culture and digital humanities; translation studies; and Jewish and modern Hebrew literature. He has published about 50 refereed articles and book chapters, and more than 200 non-refereed essays and papers.
In 2009, Lockard founded the Prison English project (now the Prison Education Program) and taught for 10 years at Florence State Prison. He helped create the Florence Poetry Collective on the Death Row unit. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in prison literature, has published an edited volume titled Prison Pedagogies: Learning and Teaching with Prisoners (Syracuse University Press, co-edited with Sherry Rankins-Robertson), and does research in this area. Together with a co-editor, he is currently working on another edited volume, STEM Education in US Prisons (forthcoming, Brill). He has published various essays on American prison literature.
His books include Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy (2019), with A. Robert Lee; Iraq War Cultures (2011), with Cynthia Fuchs; Watching Slavery: Witness Texts and Travel Reports (2008); and Brave New Classrooms: Democratic Education and the Internet (2006), with Mark Pegrum. Lockard's other current writing concerns antislavery poetry, translation ideologies, prison literature, and occasionally, astronomy culture.
Lockard is an affiliate faculty member in African and African American Studies and Jewish Studies.
Ph.D. English, University of California-Berkeley
- Antislavery literature
- Nineteenth and twentieth-century American literatures
- African American literature
- Comparative ethnic literatures
- Protest literature
- Internet studies, electronic publishing culture, digital humanities
- Cultural studies
- Jewish literature and cultural studies
- Prison literature and education
- Translation studies
- Graphic literature
Books
Joe Lockard and A. Robert Lee [co-editors], Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy (University of New Mexico Press, 2019)
Joe Lockard and Sherry Rankins-Robertson [co-editors], Prison Pedagogies: Learning and Teaching with Imprisoned Writers (Syracuse University Press, 2018).
Cynthia Fuchs and Joe Lockard [co-editors], Iraq War Cultures (New York: Peter Lang, 2011) 205 pages
Joe Lockard, Watching Slavery: Witness Texts and Travel Reports (New York: Peter Lang, 2008) 213 pages.
Joe Lockard and Mark Pegrum [co-editors], Brave New Classrooms: Democratic Education and the Internet (New York: Peter Lang, 2007). 360 pages.
Joe Lockard [ed.], Mattie Griffith, Autobiography of a Female Slave (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1998 and 2010 2nd edition). 401 pages; afterword 15 pages.
Antislavery Literature Project Imprint Series
Shih Penglu (trans.) and Joe Lockard (ed.), Harriet Jacobs – 女奴生平 – Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl – Shanghai Jiaotong University Press, 2015.
Shih Penglu (trans.) and Joe Lockard (ed.), Olaudah Equiano – 个非洲黑奴的自传 – Interesting Narrative of the Life of Gustavus Vassa, forthcoming from Shanghai Jiaotong University Press.
Xu Chaoli (trans.) and Joe Lockard (ed.), Mary Prince – 玛丽·普林斯自传 – The History of Mary Prince, forthcoming from Shanghia Jiaotong University Press.
Liu Yangxiaolu (trans.) and Joe Lockard (ed.), David Walker – 向全世界有色人种疾呼 大卫•沃克 – Appeal to the Coloured People of the World, in Four Articles, forthcoming from Shanghai Jiaotong University Press.
Xiao Xu (trans.) and Joe Lockard (ed.), William Wells Brown – 總統女兒 – Clotel; or, the President’s Daughter, forthcoming from Shanghai Jiaotong University Press.
Cai Beiling (trans.) and Joe Lockard (ed.), Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave – 弗雷德里克·道格拉斯, forthcoming from Shanghai Jiaotong University Press.
Tu Manman (trans.) and Joe Lockard (ed.), Josiah Henson, Father Henson's Story of His Own Life –神父亨森的传奇人生, forthcoming from Shanghai Jiaotong University Press.
Anthologies
Bad Subjects Anthology [co-editor] (New York: New York University Press, 1997). 228 pages.
Articles: Refereed Scholarly Journals
“US Slave Narratives in Translation in East Asia,” with Shi Penglu and Myungsung Kim, Translation and Literature 31 (2022) 3:317-340. DOI: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/tal.2022.0518
“Teaching Mars Literature,” with Peter Goggin. Science & Education (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-022-00333-3
“Slavery, Market Censorship, and US Antebellum Schoolbook Publishing,” History of Education 51 (2022) 2:207-223. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2021.1998650
“Frances Joseph-Gaudet’s Anti-Prison Vision and Communal Salvation,” Southern Studies 29 (2022) 1:81-112.
“’Sunlight upon the Landscape’: Mattie Griffith, Moral Geography, and Poetic Abolitionism,” Ohio Valley History 21 (Winter 2021) 2:23-43. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/840687
“’The Unknown Painter,’ Antislavery Fiction, and Zombies,” Studies in the American Short Story 2 (2021) 1:48-61. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5325/studamershorstor.2.1.0048
“Chinese Anthologies of American Literature,” with Qin Dan and Shi Penglu, Symplokē 28 (December 2020) 1-2, 277-295. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/773855
“Samson on the Yard: Teaching Milton’s Samson Agonistes in an Arizona Prison,” with David Hawkes, Milton Quarterly 54 (October 2020) 3:167-183. DOI: https://doi.org/10.111/milt.1253
“White Supremacism and Islamic Astronomy in History of Astronomy Texts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day,” Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 21 (2018) 1:29-36.
“W.E.B. Du Bois in China – 1959,” Journal of American Studies: Eurasian Perspectives 1 (2016) 2:99-109
“Translation Ideologies of American Literature in China,” with Qin Dan, Translation and Interpreting Studies 11 (2016) 2:268-286.
“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and a Global Literature of Female Suffering,” with Shih Penglu,Comparative Literature: East & West 20 (Spring-Summer 2014) 1:88-102.
“Jack London, Anti-Chinese Racism, and Chinese Translation,” with Qin Dan, Translation Quarterly 69 (September 2013) 25-51.
“Lucy Larcom and the Poetics of Child Labour,” English Studies in Canada 38 (September-December 2012) 3-4:139-160.
“‘No Possessions but Rages’: Vindication, Salvation, and Prison Letters in Early Kentucky,” Biography 35 (Fall 2012) 4: 610-627.
“Open Access to US Slavery: The Antislavery Literature Project,” Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature 2.1 (January 2012)
“Right to Education, Prison-University Partnerships, and Online Prison Pedagogy,” with Sherry Rankins-Robertson, Critical Survey 23 (November 2011) 3: 23-39.
“Posthumanism of the New Intermedia: The Cellphone Named Desire,” with Tomasz Kitlinski and Stephane Symons, Reconstruction 8.3 (November 2008) [16 pages, refereed] [http://www.reconstruction.eserver.org/084/kitlinski.shtml] Polish version: Art Inquiry / Recherche sur les Artes 2006, vol. 7, no. 15, 55-68.
“National Narratives and the Politics of Inclusion: Historicizing American Literature Anthologies,” with Jillian Sandell, Pedagogy 8 (Spring 2008) 2: 227-254. Re-publication in Cultural Studies (China) as "National Narratives and the Politics of Inclusion: Literature Anthologies in the US"(民族叙述与收录政治:文学选集在美国). Forthcoming Spring 2017.
“Justice Story’s Prigg Decision and the Defeat of Freedom,” Amerikastudien 52 (2007) 4:467-480.
“Pogarda i pożądanie ‘obcych’: Z imaginowanych nieczystości w literaturze polskiej” (Scorn and Desire towards ‘Strangers’: On Imaginary Filth in Polish Literature) Tomasz Kitlinski and Joe Lockard, Teksty Drugie (2007) 6: 219-229.
“Jacksonian Mobs, Free Speech, and the Rise of American Antislavery Poetry,” REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literatures, 2006 (Brook Thomas, issue editor) 117-144.
"Somewhere Between Arab and Jew: Ethnic Re-Identification in Modern Hebrew Literature," Middle Eastern Literatures 5 (January 2002) 1: 49-62.
“Reponse a Chomsky sur 9-11,” Les Temps Modernes 622 (December 2002 – January 2003) 111 -117; also in Judaism 51 (Spring 2002) 2. [In Croatian, “Odgovor Chomsky,” Europski Glasnik - The European Messenger (Zagreb), Nov. 2006, 385-390.]
“’A Light Broke Out Over My Mind’: Mattie Griffith, Madge Vertner, and Kentucky Abolitionism,” Filson Club Quarterly 76 (Summer 2002) 3: 245-285.
“Desert(ed) Geographies: Cartographies of Nuclear Testing,” Landscape Review 6 (Fall 2000) 1, 3-20.
“The Universal Hiawatha,” American Indian Quarterly 24 (2000) 1: 110-125. [Reprinted in A. Robert Lee [ed.], Native American Writing, vol. 1 (Routledge: New York & London, 2011) 179-93]
“’Welding These Residents Together’: Modernization, Neutralism and Ideologies of English in Mandatory Palestine, 1917-1948,” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 5 (Fall 1997) 1, 18-34.
“Sugar Realism in Caribbean Fiction,” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 1 (1995) 2, 80-103.
Chapters: Refereed Series and/or Refereed Chapters
“From Subject to Student: Science, Science Education, and Citizenship in US Prisons,” in STEM Education in US Prisons, Janette Carey, Joe Lockard, Tsafrir Mor, and Jill Stockwell, eds. SUNY Press, forthcoming Fall 2023.
“Louis Owens and Anti-Colonial Ghost Dances,” 31-54 in Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy, Joe Lockard and A. Robert Lee, eds. University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
"Nat Turner, Slave Revolts, and Child-Killing in US Graphic Novels,” 105-122 in Cultures of War in Graphic Novels, Nimrod Tal and Tatiana Prorokova, eds., Rutgers University Press, 2018.
“Prison Literature from the Early Republic to Attica,” chapter 18 in Cambridge History of American Working-Class Literature, Nick Coles and Paul Lauter, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017.
“Antislavery Dialogues in the United States,” in Imaginary Dialogues in American Literature and Philosophy: Beyond the Mainstream, Till Kinzel and Jarmila Mildorf, eds., Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, 2014, 113-131 [18 pages, refereed]
“From Missolonghi to Harpers Ferry: Samuel Gridley Howe and the Ethics of Self-Sacrifice,” in Engaged Romanticism, Mark Lussier and Bruce Matsunaga [eds.], Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, 143-156 [refereed]
“Facing the Wiindigoo: Gerald Vizenor and Primo Levi,” in Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, Gerald Vizenor [ed.], University of Nebraska Press, 2008, pp. 209-219 [refereed]
"Reading The Turner Diaries: Jewish Blackness, Judaized Blacks, and Head-Body Race Paradigms," in Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity and Hybridity in American Texts, David Goldstein-Shirley and Audrey Thacker [eds.], University of Washington Press, 2007, pp. 121-139.[Refereed]
“Sex Slavery and Queer Resistance in Eastern Europe,” with Tomasz Kitlinski, in Parameters of Desire, Queer Culture Against Homophobia, Dominika Ferens, Tomasz Sikora, and Tomek Basiuk [eds.] Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, 2006, pp. 127-143. [refereed]
“’Earth Feels the Time of Prophet-Song’: John Brown and Public Poetry,” in Andrew Taylor and Eldrid Herrington [eds.], The Afterlife of John Brown, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 69-87. [refereed]
“Social Fear and the Terrorism Survival Guide,” in Commodity Terrorism: The Selling of 9/11, Dana Heller [ed.], St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005, pp. 221-232. [refereed]
“Monica Dreyfus,” with Tomasz Kitlinski and Pawel Leskowicz, in Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest, Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan [eds.], New York University Press, 2001, pp. 203-224. [refereed]
“Passing Away, or Narrative Transvestism as Social Metaphor in Multiethnic Societies,” in Literary Studies East and West, vol. 16, Cynthia Franklin and Ruth Hsu [eds.], University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2000, pp. 202-208. [refereed]
“Babel Machines and Electronic Universalism,” in Race and Cyberspace, Beth Kolko, Gil Rodman, Lisa Nakamura [eds.], Routledge, New York, 2000, pp. 171-189. [refereed]
“Cooper, Heidegger and the Language of Death: Or, Why is Natty Bumppo Speaking Ebonics?” in James Fennimore Cooper -- His Country and His Art: Papers from the 1997 Cooper Seminar (no. 11), Hugh C. MacDougall [ed.]. James Fenimore Cooper Society, Oneonta, New York (1999), pp. 69-74. [refereed]
“Progressive Politics, Electronic Individualism, and the Myth of Virtual Community,” in Internet Culture, David Porter [ed.], Routledge, New York (1997), pp. 219-232. [refereed] [In Croatian, "Progresivna politika, elektronski individualizam i mit o virtualnoj zajednici,” in Etnografije Interneta, Reana Senjkovic and Iva Plese [eds.], Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku), Zagreb, 2004, pp. 251-262.]
“Racial Transvestism and Treason: The Case of Mattie Griffith,” in Nationalism and Sexuality: Crises of Identity, Yiorgos Kalogeras and Domna Pastourmatzi [eds.], American Studies in Greece: Series 2, Hellenic Association of American Studies, Thessaloniki (1996), pp. 147-156. [refereed]
“Talking Guns, Talking Turkey: Racial Violence in Early American Law and James Fenimore Cooper,” in Making America, Making American Literature, A. Robert Lee and W.M. Verhoeven [eds.], Rodopi Press, Amsterdam (1996), pp. 313-336. [refereed]
Encyclopedia Articles
“Mattie Griffith Browne,” American National Biography, Oxford University Press, October 2007
Translations
“Diary,” Orly Castel-Bloom. From Hebrew – 14 pages, November 2011 in Words without Borders
- Leket-Mor,Rachel L*, Lockard,Joe. Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature - Identity and Imagination. AMER LIBRARY ASSN(4/1/2008 - 3/31/2009).
- Leket-Mor,Rachel L*, Lockard,Joe. Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature - Identity and Imagination. ASU FDN(4/1/2008 - 3/31/2009).
Courses
2025 Spring
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ENG 304 | Critical Theories and Methods |
ENG 305 | Interpretive Theory |
2024 Fall
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ENG 353 | Af/Am Lit: Begin-Harlem Renais |
ENG 536 | Study Amer Lit before 1900 |
2024 Spring
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ENG 304 | Critical Theories and Methods |
ENG 305 | Interpretive Theory |
2023 Spring
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ENG 345 | Selected Authors or Issues |
ENG 305 | Interpretive Theory |
2022 Fall
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ENG 206 | Intro to Literary Studies |
ENG 536 | Study Amer Lit before 1900 |
2022 Spring
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ENG 536 | Study Amer Lit before 1900 |
ENG 345 | Selected Authors or Issues |
2021 Fall
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ENG 369 | Science Fiction Studies |
ENG 345 | Selected Authors or Issues |
2021 Spring
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ENG 353 | Af/Am Lit: Begin-Harlem Renais |
ENG 369 | Science Fiction Studies |
2020 Fall
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ENG 584 | Internship |
ENG 353 | Af/Am Lit: Begin-Harlem Renais |
2020 Summer
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ENG 536 | Study Amer Lit before 1900 |
ENG 536 | Study Amer Lit before 1900 |
2020 Spring
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ENG 584 | Internship |
ENG 200 | Critical Reading & Writing/Lit |
ENG 345 | Selected Authors or Issues |
2019 Fall
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ENG 584 | Internship |
ENG 369 | Science Fiction Studies |
ENG 345 | Selected Authors or Issues |
- Joe Lockard. (1) Reading, Writing and Prisoners: Literature and Prisons in the US Southwest & (2) History and Literature of US Slavery. Sichuan University - Launch of Center for American Culture (Dec 2010).
- Joe Lockard. ‘Authenticity’ and US Multicultural Literature. Beijing University (Jun 2010).
- Joe Lockard. (1) Chinese Anthologies of American Literature & (2) Ethnic Pretenders and US Literature. Sichuan University (Apr 2010).
- Joe Lockard & Qin Dan. Chinese Anthologies of American Literature, Multiculturalism, and Import-Export. Anthologies Conference (Mar 2010).
- Joe Lockard. (1) History of American Literature Anthologies, (2) US Literary Criticism and the Color Line, and (3) Literature and Social Witness: American Antislavery Writing, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, September 2009. Lecture series (Sep 2009).
- Joe Lockard. Witness and Resistance Anthologies, San Francisco, December 27, 2008. Modern Language Association (Dec 2008).
- Joe Lockard. The Anthology Politics of Antislavery Songbooks. Society for American Music, San Antonio, February 28, 2008 (Feb 2008).
- Lockard, Joe. States of Moral Exception in US Antislavery Poetry. American Language Association Annual Convention (May 2006).
- Lockard, Joe. Poetry Rereading British and American Anti-Slavery Poetry: Jacksonian Mobs and the Rise of American Antislavery. Modern Language Association Annual Convention (Dec 2005).
- Lockard, Joe. William Still and Philadelphia's African American Underground. English Department Lecture Forum, Temple University (Feb 2005).
- Lockard, Joe. Iraq War Culture. Reading at City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA (September 15, 2004) (Sep 2004).
- Lockard, Joe. Justice Story's 'Charge to the Maine Grand Jury' and ification of Antislavery Conscience. New England Slavery and the Slave Trade Conference
- Lockard, Joe. William Still and the African American Encyclopedia Tradition. Narrative 2004 Conference, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Burlington, VT
- Lockard, Joe. William Still's The Underground Railroad and the Composition of Cosmopolitan Space. Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia
- Lockard, Joe. William Still, the Underground Railroad, and the Silent Trauma of Witness. Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia
- Lockard, Joe. Jacksonian Mobs and the Rise of American Anti-Slavery Poetry. Modern Language Association Annual Convention
- Lockard, Joe. Apocalyptic Democracy and Iraq War Culture. Modern Language Association Annual Convention