Dr. Carol P. Marsh-Lockett is an Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she teaches courses in African American Literature, African American Literature by Women, Caribbean Literature, Post-Colonial Literature, and World Literature.  During her tenure at Georgia State University, she has developed and offered special topic courses in Black Women’s Drama, Religion and Community in the African American Literary Tradition, Terry McMillan and Patriarchal Desire, and African American Literary Theory.

Professor Marsh-Lockett has published in the areas of African American, Caribbean, Post-Colonial, and Seventeenth Century English Literatures.  She is the editor of Decolonizing Caribbean Literature (Studies in the Literary Imagination, Fall 1993) and Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage (Garland, Taylor and Francis, 1999).  Her articles and reviews have appeared in the CLA Journal and South Atlantic Review.  Her work has also appeared in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, and several essay collections.

          Professor Marsh-Lockett is currently engaged in two scholarly interests.  The first is an examination of the ways in which the church is represented in the African American female literary imagination.  Her second endeavor is as co-editor of a work on Caribbean women writers in exile, which is the focus of the Spring 2004 issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination.

          Professor Marsh-Lockett is from Bermuda.  She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Howard University, where she also earned the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in English.  She is married to the Rev. Dr. Harold J. Lockett.  They have two children, Amanda and Joseph.  They are members of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Southwest Atlanta.