Aisha Lockridge

Title: Assistant Professor
Department: English
Research Fields of Interest:
African American Literature, African Diasporic Literatures, Anglophone Carribean Literature, Black Feminism,
Postcolonialism, Diva Studies
Degrees: B.A., City College of New York; Ph.D., Stony Brook University Contact Info 
Email: aisha.lockridge@allegheny.edu
Phone: (814) 332-6296
Website:   

 Office Info Office Location: Oddfellows Room #217

Office Hours: 
T, Th 12:15 pm- 2:30 pm
W 4:45 pm- 6:15 pm

Courses and Syllabi
Spring 2012
English 204*00: Studies- African American Literature Download Syllabus
English 321*00: Literature of Diversity in North America Download Syllabus
FS 102*W1: Academic Discourse II Download Syllabus

Fall 2011: Sabbatical

Spring 2011
English 200*04 Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 204*00 Emerging Traditions in US Literature Download Syllabus
INTDS 210*00 Introduction to Black Studies

Fall 2010
English 204*00: Emerging Tradition in US Literature
English 322*00: Topics in African- American Literature
FS 101*40: American Discourse I 

Spring 2010 
 

Fall 2009
ENGL 204*00: Alternative Traditions | » Download Syllabus
FS 101: Ethnic Notions | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 322*00: Passing in America | » Download Syllabus 

Spring 2009
ENGL 321*00: Topics in Alternative Literature: Anglophone and Latinidad Caribbean Literature
FS 102: Defining the Diva 

Fall 2008
ENGL 470*00: Harlem Renaissance | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 204*00: Alternative Traditions | » Download Syllabus
FS 101: African American Identity in the 21st Century 

Spring 2008
ENGL 204*00: Alternative Traditions | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 322*00: Topics in African American Literature: Lost in Translation | » Download Syllabus
INTDS 210: Introduction to Black Studies 

Fall 2007
ENGL 313*00: Study in a Major Author (Alice Walker)
ENGL 200*00: Reading Woman Across the African Diaspora | » Download Syllabus 

Spring 2007
ENGL 322*00: Topics in African American Literature: Passing in America | » Download Syllabus
FS 102: Defining the Diva (2 sections) | » Download Syllabus 

Fall 2006
ENGL 211*00: Women and Literature: Exploring the Mother-Daughter Relationship in the African Diaspora
ENGL 200*00: The Changing Same: Reading Black Women (2 sections) | » Download Syllabus 

Spring 2006
ENGL 211*00: Women and Literature: Exploring the Mother-Daughter Relationship in the African Diaspora
ENGL 322*00: Topics in African American Literature: Passing in America | » Download Syllabus    

Publications  

Books  

  • Lockridge, Aisha. Tipping on a Tightrope: Divas in African American Literature (forthcoming, Peter Lang, 2012)
  • Lockridge, Aisha. Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Origins ( a review) (Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. 33.3 (2010): 892-894. 
  • Lockridge, Aisha. Helga Crane: Failed Transnational Diva. (under review at MELUS) 
  • Lockridge, Aisha.  Is the Turnabout Fair Play: Caribbean British Writers and Whiteness, (under review at Callaloo: A Journal of African Dispora Arts and Letters) Article
  • Lockridge, Aisha. Revealing the Diva in African American Literature. (under contract).
  • Lockridge, Aisha. A Review of Toni Morrison’s Beloved Origins (forthcoming from Callohoo: A Journal of African Dispora Arts and Letters) Book Review 

   

Essay
  •  Lockridge, Aisha. “Is the Turnabout Fair Play?: Caribbean British Writers and Whiteness” (in progress).

Conference Papers  

  • “Sister Circle: Partnering to Enhance the Academic Experiences of Undergraduate Women of Color at a Predominantly White Institution. (invited submission under review at NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education)
  • “Sister Circle: Retaining Underrepresented Women of Color at Predominately White Institutions”. AASUP 2010 Conference: State of Higher Educations, June 9- 12, 2010. (Washington, D.C.)
  • “Down and Out in Sugar Loaf: The Reel Housewives of Atlanta”. Annual Popular Culture Conference, March 31-April 3, 2010 (St. Louis)
  • “Sisters United: Moving ALANA Women from Insight to Foresight”. Annual Associate of College Professionals Conference, March 20- 24, 2010 (Boston)
  • “Uplifted out of Dubois: Ntozake Shange and the Talented Tenth” African Literature Association Conference. (April 15 – 19, 2009)
  • “Mystical Mammies and Séance Sisters: Examining the Magical Negress”. Popular Culture Conference. (April 8- 12, 2009)
  • “I Too Sing America: The Human Stain as a Cautionary Tale of Manifest Destiny”, National Narrative Conference, Texas. (May 1- 4, 2008)
  • “Cop Out: Dexter ‘does’ Multicultural Feminism”. Popular Culture Conference, San Francisco. (March 19- 23, 2008)
  • “Sci-Fi Mammy? Children of Men as Film and Text, Popular Culture Conference, Boston. (April 4- 7, 2007)
  • “Meeting at the Movies: Teaching Oprah Winfrey Presents Their Eyes Were Watching God”. Race and Pedagogy National Conference, University of Puget Sound, Washington. (September 14- 16, 2006).
  • “A Woman’s Concerns: Janie Crawford as a Political Voice”. National Association of African American Studies, Louisiana (February 13- 18, 2006)
  • “Outing Woman Love: The Color Purple from Book to Screen”. African Literature Association, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado. (April 6- 9, 2005)
  • “Authentic Blackness: A Harlem Renaissance Notion”. Temples of Tomorrow, Rhode Island College, Rhode Island. (May 7- 8, 2004)
  • “Revisioning Halle Berry or How Hollywood Reshaped the Tragic Mulatta”. Chair and participant. African Literature Association, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin. (April 14- 18, 2004)
  • “Valuing Identity: ‘Blackness’ as Commodity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand”. Transfronterismo. MELUS, University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas. (March 10- 13, 2004)
  • “Rethinking Caribbean British Writers.” Rethinking African Diasporic Literature. Stony Brook University, New York. (October 11- 13, 2001)
  • “Refusing to ‘Write Black’: Caribbean Descended Black British Writers Imagining Whiteness.” University of Nottingham, Morocco. (April 12 – 14, 2001)

  Invited Lectures    

  • “The Diva Phenomenon”. Ann Maria College, October 20 2009.
  • “Locating the Diva in African American Literature”. Clark College, October 19, 2009.
  • “Doing the Right Thing?: Spike Lee’s She Hate Me. Earlham College, February 18, 2008.     

 Awards    

  • Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty, Honorable Mention, 2010
  • Academic Support Grant, Allegheny College, (2009)
  • Diversity Scholar in Residence Award for Roman de la Campa, Allegheny College, 2008
  • Demmeler Grant, Allegheny College. (2008)
  • W. Burghardt Turner Dissertation Fellowship, Stony Brook University. (2006)
  • Stackpole Hall Foundation Grant for Sister Circle (w. Mournia Morris), 2007
  • Visiting Scholar, Department of English, Allegheny College. (2005 – 2006)
  • Africana Studies Library Research and Publication Grant, Stony Brook University. (2005)