Samaine Lockwood
Samaine Lockwood
Associate Professor
nineteenth-century American literature; gender and sexuality studies; research methods; queer theory
Samaine Lockwood specializes in American literature and gender and sexuality studies. She is currently working on a book project entitled Tituba: The History of an American Cultural Figure in which she examines how Tituba, one of the first women to be accused of witchcraft during the 1692-93 Salem witch hunt, has been represented since the end of the Civil War when she was first portrayed as biracial (Black and Indigenous). Samaine is interested in how American writers have returned to the Salem witch trials time and again to theorize white and Black women's citizenship, sexuality, and supposed criminality as central to founding regional, national, and hemispheric narratives. Samaine's first book, Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism, was published by UNC Press in 2015, and she has published on china collecting, Americans' obsession with Vikings, queer critical regionalism, and Black New England women writers, particularly Ann Petry.
Selected Publications
"Queer New England Regionalism," The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature, edited by Benjamin Kahan, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 658-71.
"Ann Petry's Rewriting of New England." MELUS 48.3 (2023): 73-96.
“Queer Critical Regionalism.” The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies, edited by Siobhan Somerville, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 228-240.
"Normands cosmopolites dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre régionaliste de Sarah Orne Jewett." Romantisme 181 (2018): 73-84.
Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Colonial Revival." Legacy 29.1 (2012): 86-114.
"Shopping for the Nation: Women's China Collecting in Late-Nineteenth-Century New England." The New England Quarterly 81.1 (2008): 63-90.
Education
HERS Leadership Institute | Philadelphia | 2022
University of California, Davis | Ph.D. in English | 2006
University of Michigan | M.A. in English Language and Literature | 1997
Vassar College | B.A. in English and History | 1992