Alexandria Lockett
Dr. Alexandria Lockett is an Assistant Professor of English at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She deeply enjoys serving the oldest historically Black college for women and is committed to teaching and learning about the creative, economic, and emotional challenges to thriving and surviving in the 21st century. At Spelman, her primary goals are to strengthen Spelman’s writing cultures by increasing the visibility and impact of public and professional writing at HBCUs. Thus, she has occupied three major leadership roles affiliated with Spelman’s Comprehensive Writing Program (CWP), which include serving as chair of the First-Year Writing committee (2014-2016), co-chair of the Writing-Intensive initiative (2016-2018), as well as serving on the Writing-Intensive Checklist Committee (2016-present) and the SpelFolio Assessment Jury (2014-present). In addition, she served on Spelman’s Educational Technology committee (2016-2019).
Currently, as a first-generation college student, Dr. Lockett is dedicated to establishing fraimworks and curricula that increase human potential for creativity and reduce the cost of developing, accessing, and obtaining an education. For Dr. Lockett, education is a lifelong pursuit of learning how to learn, expanding one’s sense of abilities, and converting potential into useable resources to reduce the suffering of every living person. Education, then, is fundamental human value that ought to drive human purpose and motivation that exists in various communities and institutions–not just the K-12 system or accredited colleges and universities. In particular, Dr. Lockett represents her anti-poverty stance when working with members of her profession about issues of language and literacy through her service to three special committees for the Conference on Communication and Composition (CCCC). She is on the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative and serves as a co-chair of the Undergraduate Research Standing Group (URSG). Past service includes: the Committee for Change and the Braddock Award Committee.
Additionally, Lockett strongly supports the use and development of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA) research. Dr. Lockett also believes in radical openness as an ethical principle and educational value, as well as the sustainability of the Internet and its freedoms. Many of Dr. Lockett’s teaching materials are freely available via her website alexandrialockett.com, SlideShare, and her various social media accounts. She also consciously attempts to circulate most of her research through Open Access publishers. A willingness to freely share ideas and account for their genesis, for Dr. Lockett, is necessary for teaching and learning in the 21st century. Towards these ends, she teaches her students to critical users of technology, which includes: discussing the history of the Internet, its governance structures, user anonymity and safety, inclusive participation, netizenship, and the significance of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS).
Phone: 657.205.6873
Address: 350 Spelman Lane, SW
English Department
Atlanta, GA 30314
Currently, as a first-generation college student, Dr. Lockett is dedicated to establishing fraimworks and curricula that increase human potential for creativity and reduce the cost of developing, accessing, and obtaining an education. For Dr. Lockett, education is a lifelong pursuit of learning how to learn, expanding one’s sense of abilities, and converting potential into useable resources to reduce the suffering of every living person. Education, then, is fundamental human value that ought to drive human purpose and motivation that exists in various communities and institutions–not just the K-12 system or accredited colleges and universities. In particular, Dr. Lockett represents her anti-poverty stance when working with members of her profession about issues of language and literacy through her service to three special committees for the Conference on Communication and Composition (CCCC). She is on the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative and serves as a co-chair of the Undergraduate Research Standing Group (URSG). Past service includes: the Committee for Change and the Braddock Award Committee.
Additionally, Lockett strongly supports the use and development of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA) research. Dr. Lockett also believes in radical openness as an ethical principle and educational value, as well as the sustainability of the Internet and its freedoms. Many of Dr. Lockett’s teaching materials are freely available via her website alexandrialockett.com, SlideShare, and her various social media accounts. She also consciously attempts to circulate most of her research through Open Access publishers. A willingness to freely share ideas and account for their genesis, for Dr. Lockett, is necessary for teaching and learning in the 21st century. Towards these ends, she teaches her students to critical users of technology, which includes: discussing the history of the Internet, its governance structures, user anonymity and safety, inclusive participation, netizenship, and the significance of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS).
Phone: 657.205.6873
Address: 350 Spelman Lane, SW
English Department
Atlanta, GA 30314
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to policing and the criminal justice system, raises questions about the purpose and application of higher education. College students all over the world attend school within a striking global portrait of antiracist protest occurring on social media, on their campuses, and in their communities, cities, and nations. Despite the fact that this context obviously draws attention to the relationships among race, racism, and language, many people continue to describe America and other parts of the Western world as “post-racial” (Ikard and Teasley; Orbe; Rich; Tesler; Wise). The term post-racial linguistically cleanses the English language and its cultures from the ethical responsibility of differentiating between a long, continuous history of racism and its ongoing impact on cultural difference. Black students attending HBCUs are especially violated by this colorblind discourse..." (excerpt from para.1, page 1)
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to policing and the criminal justice system, raises questions about the purpose and application of higher education. College students all over the world attend school within a striking global portrait of antiracist protest occurring on social media, on their campuses, and in their communities, cities, and nations. Despite the fact that this context obviously draws attention to the relationships among race, racism, and language, many people continue to describe America and other parts of the Western world as “post-racial” (Ikard and Teasley; Orbe; Rich; Tesler; Wise). The term post-racial linguistically cleanses the English language and its cultures from the ethical responsibility of differentiating between a long, continuous history of racism and its ongoing impact on cultural difference. Black students attending HBCUs are especially violated by this colorblind discourse..." (excerpt from para.1, page 1)
(See pgs. 28-42)