Rate My Professor David Lloyd

David Lloyd, Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 2003, is a leading scholar in Irish literature and culture. He earned his B.A. in 1977, M.A. in 1981, and Ph.D. in 1982, all from the University of Cambridge, with his doctoral work focused on Literature and Colonialism. Prior to USC, Lloyd held positions at Scripps College, the University of California, Berkeley, and as Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. At USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, he also served as Professor of Comparative Literature, contributing to departments of English and Comparative Literature. His academic interests encompass postcolonial theory, cultural studies, poetry, poetics, and settler colonial studies. Lloyd has been involved in interdisciplinary projects such as Mobile Figures for the Vectors Journal and New Directions in Feminist Research seminars on violence and sexuality in the long modernist period. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2008-09 and served as Placement Director for the English Department.