Lesa Lockford
Biographic Data
| ID | 121840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesa Lockford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesa |
| FAMILY NAME | Lockford |
| SIGNATURE | LOCKFORD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4898-8890 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Place of Performance and the Performance of Dr. Tami Spry
Pushing Walls With Tami Spry
In this essay, Tami Spry's impact upon performance, performance studies, and qualitative inquiry writ large is explored through three interrelated concepts found in her work: bodies, space, and matter
The Mind’s Mask: Concealing, Filling In, and Filling Out
Among the many challenges occasioned by the pandemic has been the health and social requirement of wearing a facial covering or mask. In this paper, I explore a few ways masks influence our reception and perception of others. While perhaps we all understand that masks may alter our perceptions through concealment, I suggest that masks additionally potentially facilitate a shift in how we perceive through a process of filling in what the mask conc…
Swallowing Words
In this poetic exploration, I riff off the poem 'There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly' to capture how negative consequences may ensue despite our best intentions. I consider how language evolves and, as it does so, how it continually requires that we change. I offer too that these dynamics are best engaged through tolerance, generosity, and grace
A Collaboration: Connected to, Constituted by, and Comfort in the Other
This essay explores our collaborative work as connective, constitutive, and comforting. Calling upon the poetic and performative, we describe our relational dynamic as a loving presence that comes together for the gifts of our collaborations. The essay ends with a reflection on our presentation at the 14th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry after Tami Spry stood in for Lesa Lockford when Lesa was unable to attend
Now is the Time for Autoethnography
This manifesto establishes contextual justifications for doing autoethnography, articulates why autoethnography matters, and reminds us of how to manifest the future of and for autoethnography
Welcome to the Neoliberal University
As university administrators increasingly promote policies supportive of neoliberalism, an implicit shift in educational mission is insinuating its way into academic life. In this parody of a university recruitment letter, I hope to bring the subtext of that shift into comic and tragic relief
Leaving Home: Abandoning a Problematic Metaphor
To feel at home is an experience often proffered as desirable because it connotes comfort and familiarity, and as such it is often taken for granted as positive. In this essay, I delineate how “home,” whether actual or metaphorical, is a contested concept and location, one that is marked not only by who and what we let in but by what we keep out. I offer that belonging—multiple, elective, and temporary—enables a way more in keeping with our trans…
Being At the Mercy of Ruin
In this performance response, I hope to evoke the somatic and sensorial experience of witnessing Patrick Santoro's one-person show, At the Mercy of Ruin
Trusting the Bridging Power of Autoethnography
In this essay I explore how autoethnography as a method for fieldwork and for writing has conveyed me to new locales and to new insights that I would not have found without employing it. I also consider how trusting the autoethnographic bridge is not easy and that taking the bridge is not for everyone
Concrete and Dust: Mapping the Sexual Terrains of Los Angeles
Lesa LockfordBowling Green State University
Seeing, Channeling, and Weaving: Coming to Christie Logan
Three texts by individual authors, each created about unique experiences, are offered as a polyvocal, diversely textured collection to be read alongside, with, and through each other. Our aim is to render a multi-faceted view of one particular moment in the pedagogical history of our discipline. We were members of the same cohort of graduate students at California State University, Northridge, and this collection charts how we each came to perfor…
Writing Qualitative Inquiry and Other Impossible Journeys
In this essay I consider the challenges of asserting one's subjectivity in a postmodern context. I offer that though to do so is a contested endeavor, writing qualitatively helps render lives coherent and meaningful especially when confronting a world that is often brutal, hostile, and dehumanizing
Hearing the Call
In this essay, I evoke the magic and mystery and the pleasure and pain of giving voice to experience
Placing Words
Skillful use of language can move us emotionally or to action. Language can describe; it can entertain; and, more importantly, language can do things in the world. Yet, language, no matter how skillfully deployed, often never quite captures our meanings or effects the changes in the world we may wish it could. Through the use of poetic narrative, the author seeks to evoke the beauty, the dynamism, and the limitations of language
Performance is Sex
It happens in the dark, in the light, in the everyday. It seeks your consent. It forces itself upon you. It slithers in between the comfort of the taken for granted and the shiver of the unknown and it haunts you in your dreams, your fantasies, your worst fears. It works on your skin and twists your sinews. It makes you yelp, splutter and crack open with delight. It makes you shut down and recoil and if possible, flee. It appeals to your intellec…
Investing in the Political Beyond
In this article, the author employs performative writing to explore the complications and contradictions that inhere in the experience of audiencing our nation's investment in the war in the Middle East. The question of how we can know the truth given the prevalence of rhetorical spin from politicians and pundits coupled with the brute fact of the loss of so many American lives is considered
From Silence to Siren to Silence: A Personal Tale of Political Consequence
Through interweaving her student's troubling confessional self-disclosure revealed in a course assignment with a disturbing account taken from her own adolescent experience, the author considers the pedagogical challenges as well as the personal and political consequences of silence and of witnessing and the irrevocability and interpretive indeterminacy of such self-disclosure
An ethnographic ghost story: Adapting what's a nice commodity like you doing in a spectacle like this
Reclamation and revaluation: The discursive dominion and critical poetics of erotic teachers
EROTIC FACULTIES. By Joanna Frueh. Berkeley: U of California P, 1996; pp. ix‐214; $19.95. READING, WRITING, AND REWRITING THE PROSTITUTE BODY. By Shannon Bell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994; pp. ix‐229; $13.95. REAL, LIVE, NUDE, GIRL: CHRONICLES OF A SEX‐POSITIVE CULTURE. By Carol Queen. Pittsburgh: Cleis, 1997; pp. ix‐216; $14.95
Social Drama in the Spectacle of Femininity: The Performance of Weight Loss in the Weight Watchers' Program
In this essay I examine the cultural performance of femininity as performed during women's transformation of body size. The agonistic experience that weight-conscious women confront is explicated through Victor Turner's model for social drama. In particular, the performance of weight loss by female members of the Weight Watcher's program—a program which by its very name acknowledges the implicit surveillance that overweight women experience—is ex…
From Silence to Siren to Silence: A Personal Tale of Political Consequence
Through interweaving her student's troubling confessional self-disclosure revealed in a course assignment with a disturbing account taken from her own adolescent experience, the author considers the pedagogical challenges as well as the personal and political consequences of silence and of witnessing and the irrevocability and interpretive indeterminacy of such self-disclosure
Writing Qualitative Inquiry and Other Impossible Journeys
In this essay I consider the challenges of asserting one's subjectivity in a postmodern context. I offer that though to do so is a contested endeavor, writing qualitatively helps render lives coherent and meaningful especially when confronting a world that is often brutal, hostile, and dehumanizing
Placing Words
Skillful use of language can move us emotionally or to action. Language can describe; it can entertain; and, more importantly, language can do things in the world. Yet, language, no matter how skillfully deployed, often never quite captures our meanings or effects the changes in the world we may wish it could. Through the use of poetic narrative, the author seeks to evoke the beauty, the dynamism, and the limitations of language
Investing in the Political Beyond
In this article, the author employs performative writing to explore the complications and contradictions that inhere in the experience of audiencing our nation's investment in the war in the Middle East. The question of how we can know the truth given the prevalence of rhetorical spin from politicians and pundits coupled with the brute fact of the loss of so many American lives is considered
Social Drama in the Spectacle of Femininity: The Performance of Weight Loss in the Weight Watchers' Program
In this essay I examine the cultural performance of femininity as performed during women's transformation of body size. The agonistic experience that weight-conscious women confront is explicated through Victor Turner's model for social drama. In particular, the performance of weight loss by female members of the Weight Watcher's program—a program which by its very name acknowledges the implicit surveillance that overweight women experience—is ex…
Social Drama in the Spectacle of Femininity: The Performance of Weight Loss in the Weight Watchers' Program
In this essay I examine the cultural performance of femininity as performed during women's transformation of body size. The agonistic experience that weight-conscious women confront is explicated through Victor Turner's model for social drama. In particular, the performance of weight loss by female members of the Weight Watcher's program—a program which by its very name acknowledges the implicit surveillance that overweight women experience—is ex…
Reclamation and revaluation: The discursive dominion and critical poetics of erotic teachers
EROTIC FACULTIES. By Joanna Frueh. Berkeley: U of California P, 1996; pp. ix‐214; $19.95. READING, WRITING, AND REWRITING THE PROSTITUTE BODY. By Shannon Bell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994; pp. ix‐229; $13.95. REAL, LIVE, NUDE, GIRL: CHRONICLES OF A SEX‐POSITIVE CULTURE. By Carol Queen. Pittsburgh: Cleis, 1997; pp. ix‐216; $14.95
An ethnographic ghost story: Adapting what's a nice commodity like you doing in a spectacle like this
From Silence to Siren to Silence: A Personal Tale of Political Consequence
Through interweaving her student's troubling confessional self-disclosure revealed in a course assignment with a disturbing account taken from her own adolescent experience, the author considers the pedagogical challenges as well as the personal and political consequences of silence and of witnessing and the irrevocability and interpretive indeterminacy of such self-disclosure
Investing in the Political Beyond
In this article, the author employs performative writing to explore the complications and contradictions that inhere in the experience of audiencing our nation's investment in the war in the Middle East. The question of how we can know the truth given the prevalence of rhetorical spin from politicians and pundits coupled with the brute fact of the loss of so many American lives is considered
Performance is Sex
It happens in the dark, in the light, in the everyday. It seeks your consent. It forces itself upon you. It slithers in between the comfort of the taken for granted and the shiver of the unknown and it haunts you in your dreams, your fantasies, your worst fears. It works on your skin and twists your sinews. It makes you yelp, splutter and crack open with delight. It makes you shut down and recoil and if possible, flee. It appeals to your intellec…
Hearing the Call
In this essay, I evoke the magic and mystery and the pleasure and pain of giving voice to experience
Placing Words
Skillful use of language can move us emotionally or to action. Language can describe; it can entertain; and, more importantly, language can do things in the world. Yet, language, no matter how skillfully deployed, often never quite captures our meanings or effects the changes in the world we may wish it could. Through the use of poetic narrative, the author seeks to evoke the beauty, the dynamism, and the limitations of language
Seeing, Channeling, and Weaving: Coming to Christie Logan
Three texts by individual authors, each created about unique experiences, are offered as a polyvocal, diversely textured collection to be read alongside, with, and through each other. Our aim is to render a multi-faceted view of one particular moment in the pedagogical history of our discipline. We were members of the same cohort of graduate students at California State University, Northridge, and this collection charts how we each came to perfor…
Writing Qualitative Inquiry and Other Impossible Journeys
In this essay I consider the challenges of asserting one's subjectivity in a postmodern context. I offer that though to do so is a contested endeavor, writing qualitatively helps render lives coherent and meaningful especially when confronting a world that is often brutal, hostile, and dehumanizing
Trusting the Bridging Power of Autoethnography
In this essay I explore how autoethnography as a method for fieldwork and for writing has conveyed me to new locales and to new insights that I would not have found without employing it. I also consider how trusting the autoethnographic bridge is not easy and that taking the bridge is not for everyone
Concrete and Dust: Mapping the Sexual Terrains of Los Angeles
Lesa LockfordBowling Green State University
Being At the Mercy of Ruin
In this performance response, I hope to evoke the somatic and sensorial experience of witnessing Patrick Santoro's one-person show, At the Mercy of Ruin
Leaving Home: Abandoning a Problematic Metaphor
To feel at home is an experience often proffered as desirable because it connotes comfort and familiarity, and as such it is often taken for granted as positive. In this essay, I delineate how “home,” whether actual or metaphorical, is a contested concept and location, one that is marked not only by who and what we let in but by what we keep out. I offer that belonging—multiple, elective, and temporary—enables a way more in keeping with our trans…
Now is the Time for Autoethnography
This manifesto establishes contextual justifications for doing autoethnography, articulates why autoethnography matters, and reminds us of how to manifest the future of and for autoethnography
Welcome to the Neoliberal University
As university administrators increasingly promote policies supportive of neoliberalism, an implicit shift in educational mission is insinuating its way into academic life. In this parody of a university recruitment letter, I hope to bring the subtext of that shift into comic and tragic relief
A Collaboration: Connected to, Constituted by, and Comfort in the Other
This essay explores our collaborative work as connective, constitutive, and comforting. Calling upon the poetic and performative, we describe our relational dynamic as a loving presence that comes together for the gifts of our collaborations. The essay ends with a reflection on our presentation at the 14th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry after Tami Spry stood in for Lesa Lockford when Lesa was unable to attend
The Mind’s Mask: Concealing, Filling In, and Filling Out
Among the many challenges occasioned by the pandemic has been the health and social requirement of wearing a facial covering or mask. In this paper, I explore a few ways masks influence our reception and perception of others. While perhaps we all understand that masks may alter our perceptions through concealment, I suggest that masks additionally potentially facilitate a shift in how we perceive through a process of filling in what the mask conc…
Swallowing Words
In this poetic exploration, I riff off the poem 'There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly' to capture how negative consequences may ensue despite our best intentions. I consider how language evolves and, as it does so, how it continually requires that we change. I offer too that these dynamics are best engaged through tolerance, generosity, and grace
The Place of Performance and the Performance of Dr. Tami Spry
Pushing Walls With Tami Spry
In this essay, Tami Spry's impact upon performance, performance studies, and qualitative inquiry writ large is explored through three interrelated concepts found in her work: bodies, space, and matter
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