She earned her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on how scaled information production affects language, culture, and communication. While in residence at Emory, Dr. Lockett will working on the book manuscript Overflow: Literary and Rhetorical Perspectives on Leaks. This project, which is inspired by her dissertation, critically investigates the technological politics of race and the racial politics of surveillance paradigms and security practices by focusing on the meaning of the term "leaks." Through her grammatical examination of "leaks," as both a noun and a verb, she analyzes their dramatic representations in diverse texts such as 19th and 20th century newspapers and black literary texts, Watergate memoirs, and new media.