Assistant Professor
English Department, St. John's Liberal Arts and Sciences
Da Silva Hall, Room 315
Staten Island campus
Phone: (718) 390-4442
lockeyb@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
Ph.D., October 1999, Rutgers University, English Literature,
Specialty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature,
Shakespeare, and critical theory.
M.A., January 1993, University of Sussex. Brighton. U.K., with
Distinction in Critical Theory of English Literature.
B.A., June 1991, Swarthmore College. Swarthmore, PA., with
Honors in English Literature.
Profile
Brian Lockey teaches Early Modern literature and culture, including
Shakespeare. He has recently published Law and Empire in English
Renaissance Literature (Cambridge UP, 2006), which suggests that
early modern fiction played a significant role in the discursive
formation of legal imperialism. He is now working on a second book
project tentatively titled, “Catholics, Royalists, Cosmopolitans:
Writing from the Margins of Renaissance England,” which suggests
that English discourses of nationhood were in conversation with
various “cosmopolitan” perspectives, some of which sought to
cultivate and sustain the emerging English national and imperial
identity and others that challenged state and imperial power from
the perspective of hybrid identities, exile communities, and
travels and interactions between and among British ethnicities and
European national identities.