Assistant Professor of
English
St. John's College of Arts and Sciences
Staten Island Campus
Da Silva Hall, rm. 315
718-390-4442
lockeyb@stjohns.edu
Office Hours, Spring 2006
Monday/Friday: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M.
Wednesday: 5:30 - 6:30 P.M.
Education
Ph.D. in English Literature. Rutgers University. New Brunswick,
NJ. October 1999. Specialty in sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century literature, Shakespeare, and critical
theory.
M.A. with Distinction in Critical Theory of English Literature.
University of Sussex. Brighton. U.K. January 1993.
B.A. with Honors in English Literature. Swarthmore College.
Swarthmore, PA. June 1991.
University Positions
Assistant Professor of English Renaissance Literature. English
Department. Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus. September
2003-Present.
Junior Faculty Fellow. Erasmus Institute. University of Notre Dame.
August 2002-June 2003.
Fellowships and Awards
Erasmus Institute Fellowship. University of Notre Dame. Sabbatical
leave with pay. 2002-3.
Publications
Book
Law and Empire in Early Modern Literature. London, New
York: Cambridge UP, Forthcoming.
Articles and Reviews
“Conquest and English Legal Identity in Renaissance Ireland.”
Journal of the History of Ideas. (Forthcoming 2005):
543-558. (Peer-reviewed).
“Roman Conquest and English Legal Identity in Cymbeline.”
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 3.1 (Spring
2003): 113-47. (Peer-reviewed).
“Spenser's Legalization of the Irish Conquest in A View and The
Faerie Queene VI.” English Literary Renaissance 31.3 (Fall
2001): 365-391. (Peer-reviewed).
“Review: Joan Pong Linton, The Romance of the New
World (Cambridge UP, 1998); Helen Hackett, Women and Romance
Fiction in the English Renaissance (Cambridge UP, 2000).” Kritikon
Litterarum. 33 (2003): 97-101.
“Review: Jon Quitslund, Spenser’s Supreme Fiction: Platonic
Natural Philosophy and The Faerie Queene (Toronto UP 2001).”
Kritikon Litterarum 29 (2002): 155-57.
Presentations
“The Genre of Transnational Justice: Knights, Shepherds, and
Princes in the Elizabethan Romance.” Renaissance Society of America
Conference. Cambridge, UK. April 2005
Session Organizer, Chair, and Respondent: “English Literary
Identity and the Iberian World.” Renaissance Society of America
Conference. Cambridge, UK. April 2005.
“English Romance and the Laws of War.” Fourteenth Biennial New
College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies. Sarasota,
Florida. March 2004.
Teaching Interests
Poetry, prose, and drama of the sixteenth- and
seventeenth-centuries; Shakespeare; Spenser; Milton; Epic and
romance; Transatlantic English literatures; The Irish conquest and
colonization; Law, religion, nationalism; Colonialism and
imperialism; Formations of racial and gender identity; Critical
theory and literary criticism.
Courses Taught at St. John's
University
Spring 2006
English 3130 Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Plays
English 290 Graduate Seminar: New World Encounters and Conquests in
British Literature
Fall 2005
English 3140: Shakespeare’s Jacobean Plays
English 4991: Seminar in British Literature