Lloyd Kermode

Academic Profile

Academic Background: BA in English Literature (University of Sheffield and University of Maryland), MPhil in English Literature (The Shakespeare Institute), MA in Creative Writing (Johns Hopkins University), Ph.D. in English (Rice University).

Research Interests: Early modern drama, 16th-century national and ethnic identity in England, British Renaissance cultural studies, theories of space and consciousness.

Appointments: Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach; Affiliated faculty member of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Publications:

• Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
• Three Renaissance Usury Plays (Manchester University Press, 2009).
• Tudor Drama before Shakespeare (Editor, Palgrave, 2004).

Additional Contributions: Teaches courses in medieval and early modern literature, poetry, and literary criticism. Also a musician, playing rock and blues guitar.