Joe Lockard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1461650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe Lockard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe |
| FAMILY NAME | Lockard |
| SIGNATURE | LOCKARD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0778-5395 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
John Brown in China
Prison Writing Anthologies in the United States
Prison writing anthologies have provided a defining presence in US prison literature. They have served as a vehicle for incarcerated writers to communicate with outside readers, even though early anthologies frequently relied on patronizing or obsequious language to gain publication. The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed a surge in prison writing anthologies, a development that responded to rising social consciousness of prisons as sites creat…
Herminio Serna and Death Row Childhood
Herminio Serna (1966-2018) was an incarcerated Chicano / Indigenous writer on San Quentin State Prison’s Death Row for twenty-one years, most of which were spent in solitary confinement. His sole volume of prose poems, "Whisperings from Death Row", appeared two years prior to his death from a drug overdose. Like nearly all incarcerated writers, Serna’s work has received no critical notice. Serna’s writing describes a hellish psychological landsca…
Teaching Mars Literature
I dreamt that the world was on fire
Memoirs of Boston King, a Black Preacher appeared in serial form in The Methodist Magazine between March and June 1798. King escaped slavery in South Carolina, joined the British army to fight in the Revolutionary War, eventually resettled in Nova Scotia, and emigrated to Sierra Leone. This essay argues that readings of King's Memoirs solely as a historical document are inadequate. The essay first summarizes King's biography and contextualizes it…
Slavery, market censorship and US antebellum schoolbook publishing
This paper explores the representation and non-representation of slavery in US school textbooks from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the US Civil War. It reviews the major readers, almost none of which mentioned slavery despite the anti-slavery sentiments of many textbook editors. The few readers that addressed slavery did so in limited terms and were not popular. Despite this, a myth arose in the US southern states that the treat…
Monica Dreyfus
Prison Pedagogies
Prison Literature from the Early Republic to Attica
Translation ideologies of American literature in China
Chinese translations of U.S. literature manifest a shift from the third-world internationalism and anti-Western and anti-capitalist politics of the 1950s toward a diminished rhetorical antagonism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Because translation introductions are instrumental in introducing Chinese readers to the social context of U.S. literature, we surveyed a broad sample of prefaces. Based on this survey, we theorize …
No Possessions but Rages
Testimonies of salvation, popular in contemporary faith-based prison programming, have a lengthy history in US prison literature. Yet accounts of private spirituality can as easily frame an epistemic insufficiency of topical avoidance, concealment, and falsification. To illustrate the pitfalls of such narratives the paper historicizes and analyzes the unpublished 1793-94 prison letters of John Shaw, held in a Kentucky jail for seven years on unkn…
Réponse à Chomsky
No Possessions but Rages
Testimonies of salvation, popular in contemporary faith-based prison programming, have a lengthy history in US prison literature. Yet accounts of private spirituality can as easily frame an epistemic insufficiency of topical avoidance, concealment, and falsification. To illustrate the pitfalls of such narratives the paper historicizes and analyzes the unpublished 1793-94 prison letters of John Shaw, held in a Kentucky jail for seven years on unkn…
Réponse à Chomsky
No Possessions but Rages
Testimonies of salvation, popular in contemporary faith-based prison programming, have a lengthy history in US prison literature. Yet accounts of private spirituality can as easily frame an epistemic insufficiency of topical avoidance, concealment, and falsification. To illustrate the pitfalls of such narratives the paper historicizes and analyzes the unpublished 1793-94 prison letters of John Shaw, held in a Kentucky jail for seven years on unkn…
Translation ideologies of American literature in China
Chinese translations of U.S. literature manifest a shift from the third-world internationalism and anti-Western and anti-capitalist politics of the 1950s toward a diminished rhetorical antagonism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Because translation introductions are instrumental in introducing Chinese readers to the social context of U.S. literature, we surveyed a broad sample of prefaces. Based on this survey, we theorize …
Prison Literature from the Early Republic to Attica
Prison Pedagogies
Monica Dreyfus
Slavery, market censorship and US antebellum schoolbook publishing
This paper explores the representation and non-representation of slavery in US school textbooks from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the US Civil War. It reviews the major readers, almost none of which mentioned slavery despite the anti-slavery sentiments of many textbook editors. The few readers that addressed slavery did so in limited terms and were not popular. Despite this, a myth arose in the US southern states that the treat…
Herminio Serna and Death Row Childhood
Herminio Serna (1966-2018) was an incarcerated Chicano / Indigenous writer on San Quentin State Prison’s Death Row for twenty-one years, most of which were spent in solitary confinement. His sole volume of prose poems, "Whisperings from Death Row", appeared two years prior to his death from a drug overdose. Like nearly all incarcerated writers, Serna’s work has received no critical notice. Serna’s writing describes a hellish psychological landsca…
Teaching Mars Literature
I dreamt that the world was on fire
Memoirs of Boston King, a Black Preacher appeared in serial form in The Methodist Magazine between March and June 1798. King escaped slavery in South Carolina, joined the British army to fight in the Revolutionary War, eventually resettled in Nova Scotia, and emigrated to Sierra Leone. This essay argues that readings of King's Memoirs solely as a historical document are inadequate. The essay first summarizes King's biography and contextualizes it…
Prison Writing Anthologies in the United States
Prison writing anthologies have provided a defining presence in US prison literature. They have served as a vehicle for incarcerated writers to communicate with outside readers, even though early anthologies frequently relied on patronizing or obsequious language to gain publication. The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed a surge in prison writing anthologies, a development that responded to rising social consciousness of prisons as sites creat…
John Brown in China
Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Prison (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works)