Samaine Lockwood specializes in American literature and gender and sexuality studies. She is currently working on a book called Tituba: The History of an American Cultural Figure in which she examines how Tituba, one of the first women to be accused of witchcraft during the 1692-93 Salem witch hunt, has been represented over hundreds of years of American culture. Tituba, who was enslaved, was most likely an Indigenous woman, but she has been represented as a Black or biracial (Black and Indigenous) woman since the end of the Civil War. Samaine is interested in how American writers, especially White and Black women writers, have returned to the Salem witch trials and Tituba time and again to think through Black and White women's citizenship, sexuality, and so-called criminality as well as the varied roles colonial women, Black, White, and Indigenous, play in our founding national and hemispheric narratives. Samaine's first book, Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism, was published by UNC Press in 2015, and she has published on china collecting, colonial revivalism, nineteenth-century Americans' obsession with Vikings, queer critical regionalism, and New England regionalism in relation to the African American literary tradition.