Associate
Professor
English Department, St. John's Liberal Arts and Sciences
Da Silva Hall, Room 346
Staten Island campus
(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 is
the author of Law and Empire
in English Renaissance Literature (Cambridge UP, 2006,
Paperback edition 2009), which suggests that early modern fiction
played a significant role in the discursive formation of legal
imperialism. He has recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal for Early Modern
Cultural Studies, entitled The Spanish
Connection: Historical
and Literary Perspectives on the Empires and has
contributed a chapter to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of
Shakespeare (Oxford UP, forthcoming). His articles have
appeared in English Literary
Renaissance, the Journal
of the History of Ideas, and the Journal of Medieval and Early
Modern Studies. He is
now working on a second book project titled, Catholics, Royalists,
Cosmopolitans: Writing from the Margins of Renaissance England
(Ashgate, forthcoming), 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.