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.

Lloyd's prolific scholarship includes seminal books such as Nationalism and Minor Literature: James Clarence Mangan and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism (1987), Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post-Colonial Moment (1993), Ireland After History (2000), Irish Times: Temporalities of Modernity (2008), Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity, 1800-2000: The Transformation of Oral Space (2011), Beckett’s Thing: Theatre and Painting (2016), and Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics (2019). He co-edited The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (1991) with Abdul JanMohamed and The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (1997) with Lisa Lowe. As a poet and playwright, he published Arc & Sill: Poems 1979-2009 (2012), and his play The Press had staged readings and premiered at Liverpool Hope University in 2010. Lloyd's contributions have significantly influenced Irish studies, postcolonial theory, and aesthetics.

Professional Email: davidcll@usc.edu