Joe Lockard joined the English department in Fall 2002. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 2000. He has taught in seven colleges and universities in three 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), and Palacky University (Olomouc, Czech Republic). Before joining our department, he spent two years teaching as a Faculty Fellow in the University of California - Davis English department.

Dr. Lockard researches antislavery literature and human rights philosophy in relation to nineteenth-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.  The project operates in cooperation with the English Server, located at Iowa State University.

His work areas include nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature; African American literature, minority discourse, and comparative American ethnic literatures; the literatures of ‘race’ and nationalism; cultural studies; Internet culture and global English; and Jewish and modern Hebrew literature.

Dr. Lockard writes on Internet culture and several of his articles are in common use in academic courses. Together with Mark Pegrum, he co-edited Brave New Classrooms: Democratic Education and the Internet (Peter Lang, 2007). His latest book is Watching Slavery: Witness Texts and Travel Reports (Peter Lang, 2008).  He has a forthcoming volume, co-edited with Cynthia Fuchs, entitled Iraq War Cultures (Peter Lang, under contract). He was an editor in Bad Subjects, the oldest online politics and cultural studies journal, from 1993-2005. 

Dr. Lockard is an affiliate faculty member in African and African American Studies and Jewish Studies.

For further details and online publications, see Dr. Lockard’s curriculum vita.