Gerald R. Lucas
Mailer scholar and editor; Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University and editor of Project Mailer. He is the continuing editor of this digital edition of Norman Mailer: Works and Days, co-editor of the site's full-text "The White Negro" (with Jason Mosser), and a contributor to Norman Mailer in Context (2021).
Gerald R. Lucas is Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University and the editor of Project Mailer; he has published on contemporary American literature, science fiction, and media studies. He helped revise and edit J. Michael and Donna Pedro Lennon’s 2018 edition of the print Works and Days, and from 2026 he is the continuing editor of this digital successor edition (see About this project).
Within the project’s recent holdings he recurs several times over: he co-edited, with Jason Mosser, the annotated full text of “The White Negro”; he co-edited the posthumous Lipton’s, A Marijuana Journal (2024) with J. Michael Lennon and Susan Mailer; he contributed the “Political Resonance” chapter to Maggie McKinley’s Norman Mailer in Context; and, as “editor of Project Mailer,” he supplied a jacket note to McKinley’s Understanding Norman Mailer.
In The Mailer Review
Listed by volume, with the contributor’s note as the journal printed it; the note is repeated only where its wording changed. Search the journal for all of them.
Vol. 5 (2011)
- “Norman Mailer and the Novel 2.0,” 5 (2011): 248 — 2011 bibliography · article
Gerald R. Lucas is an Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the interdisciplinary program New Media and Communication at Macon State College. His interests include science fiction, new media, computer-assisted pedagogy, and photography. His recent article in The Mailer Review addresses changing cultural attitudes toward traditional media forms. Jerry is the current Web Master for the Norman Mailer Society.
Vol. 7 (2013)
- “Teaching Norman Mailer in the Cloud,” 7.1 (2013): 150 — 2013 bibliography · article
- “Executioner for a New Age,” 7.1 (2013): 417 — 2013 bibliography · article
Gerald R. Lucas is Associate Professor of English and teaches humanities and new media studies at Middle Georgia State College. His research and teaching interests include new media, speculative fiction, instructional technology, and twentieth-century American and British literature and theory. Jerry blogs at his web site <grlucas.net>, works as the Senior Media Editor of The Mailer Review, and maintains The Norman Mailer Society web site.
Vol. 9 (2015)
- “Project Mailer 2015,” 9.1 (2015): 65 — 2015 bibliography · article
- “Parallel Lives,” 9.1 (2015): 316 — 2015 bibliography · article
Gerald R. Lucas (@drgrlucas) teaches humanities and new media studies at Middle Georgia State University. His research and teaching interests include new media, speculative fiction, eLearning, and twentieth-century American literature. He is a Professor of English and a Norman Mailer Fellow and he maintains Project Mailer, works as the Senior Media Editor of The Mailer Review, and posts frequently on Medium and Twitter.
Vol. 10 (2016)
- “Every You, Every Me,” 10.1 (2016): 481 — 2016 bibliography · article
Gerald Lucas is a Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University. He teaches technocultural studies, writing, and digital humanities. His interests include speculative fiction, digital media, elearning, epic poetry, literary theory, and modernism. In his spare time, Jerry makes homemade pizza, takes photos, and writes science fiction.
Vol. 11 (2017)
- “Lost Islands of the Mind,” 11.1 (2017): 273 — 2017 bibliography · article
Gerald R. Lucas is Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University and the editor of Project Mailer. He serves as Vice-President of the Norman Mailer Society, the Digital Editor of The Mailer Review, and the Society’s webmaster. Recently, Lucas acted as the editor for J. Michael Lennon and Donna Pedro Lennon’s expanded and updated Norman Mailer: Works and Days, and he created and maintains the digital Humanities project based on the same.
Vol. 13 (2019)
- “Searching for Home,” 13.1 (2019): 204 — 2019 bibliography · article
Contributor’s note as in vol. 11.
Vol. 14 (2020)
- “Norman Mailer: Works and Days: June 2020 Update” (with J. Michael Lennon, Donna Pedro Lennon), 14.1 (2020): 204 — 2020 bibliography · article
Contributor’s note as in vol. 11.
Vol. 15 (2021)
- ““It Might Not Be Unpleasant to Live”: The Transitional Short Fiction of Norman Mailer,” 15.1 (2021): 124 — 2021 bibliography · article
- ““It Might Not Be Unpleasant to Live”: The Transitional Short Fiction of Norman Mailer,” 15.1 (2021): 124 — 2021 bibliography · article
Contributor’s note as in vol. 11.
Vol. 16 (2026) — forthcoming
- ““It Might Not Be Unpleasant to Live”: The Transitional Short Fiction of Norman Mailer,” 16.1 (2026): 89 — forthcoming
- “Introduction: The Site of Memory” (with Matthew S. Hinton), 16.1 (2026): xiii — forthcoming
Gerald R. Lucas, Ph.D., is Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University and the editor of Project Mailer. He specializes in blending literary studies with emerging technologies, having conceived and built numerous digital scholarly projects. Jerry has published widely on contemporary literature, media studies, and the works of Norman Mailer, co-editing several books, including *Lipton’s: A Marijuana Journal, 1954–1955 *and Norman Mailer: Works and Days. He currently serves on the Editorial Board and as the Editor of The Mailer Review. Jerry is a devoted Wikipedian and audiophile.
Related pages
- About this project | The White Negro | Lipton's, A Marijuana Journal | Norman Mailer in Context | Jason Mosser
- The Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer (13.1) | La Petite Bourgeoise (14.1) | The Thalian Adventure (15.1) | The Fight (Taschen edition) (16.1)