Mark Lockwood
SPAN Postdoctoral Fellow
- mark.lockwood@northwestern.edu
- 1860 Campus Drive, Crowe Hall, Room 5-141
- Office Hours: by appointment only, make an appointment by email
Research Interests:
Sexual Cultures
Black Sexual Economies
Race and Masculinity
Black Queer Studies
Adult Film History
Oral History
Visual and Erotic Archives
Harm Reduction
HIV/AIDS
About:
Mark Lockwood is a cultural historian, resource mobilizer, pleasure-centered harm reductionist, first-generation college graduate, and SPAN Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. As a scholar, he writes and theorizes about black sexual economies, sexual cultures, and race and masculinity. As a former McNair Scholar, he also studies and teaches courses black queer studies, race and performance, film and media, and archiving queer history.
He is currently at work on his first book project, tentatively titled Black Inches: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Erotic Resistance in the ‘Blatino Porn’ Era. This is the first full-length study to examine the history, visual culture, and production practices of Black and Latino pornographers during the rise of the blatino porn genre. Focusing on a period when these artists created adult films by and for themselves—amid exclusion from the mainstream gay porn industry—the book draws on personal interviews, archival materials, historiographic methods, and close film readings. It argues that blatino pornographers forged independent pathways to assert creative control, disrupt racialized sexual stereotypes, and express their own erotic cultures on screen. His research has previously been supported by fellowships from the University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Maryland, College Park; the Kinsey Institute; and the University of Amsterdam. He also has two forthcoming articles in Porn Studies.
Beyond academia, Mark has over a decade of experience working in the harm reduction movement. He has previously worked at national organizations and provided strategic grantmaking, capacity building, and direct funding to grassroots groups supporting people in the sex trades, drug user health, and people living with HIV. Mark has active involvement with the Red Umbrella Fund, the Black Harm Reduction Network, the Sex Work Donor Collaborative, and the Federal Sex Work and Harm Reduction Policy Subgroup.