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David Lloyd

Professor of English

Contact Information
Office: THH 416
Phone: (213)740-2808
E-mail: davidcll@email.usc.edu

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Curriculum Vitae
 

Biographical Sketch

Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 2003, David Lloyd has published primarily in the field of Irish literature and culture and on colonialism and nationalism. His books in Irish Studies are: Nationalism and Minor Literature: James Clarence Mangan and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism (1987); Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Postcolonial Moment (1993); Ireland After History (2000); and a special issue of Interventions, "Ireland's Modernities" (2003). A new collection of essays, Irish Times: Essays on the History and Temporality of Irish Modernity will appear from Field Day Press, Dublin, 2008. He is currently at work on a further book, A History of the Irish Orifice: the Irish Body and Modernity. He has co-published several other books: The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse, co-edited with Abdul JanMohamed (1991); The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital, co-edited with Lisa Lowe (1997); and Culture and the State, co-authored with Paul Thomas (1997). He is also working on a study of culture and ideology, Aesthetic Education: the Cultural Formation of the Subject. He teaches on Irish literature, cultural and postcolonial theory and British and Anglophone literature from Romanticism to the present. He joined USC in Fall 2003 after teaching at Scripps College, Claremont, and the University of California, Berkeley.
 

Education

B.A. , Cambridge University, 1/1977
M.A. , Cambridge University, 1/1981
Ph.D. Literature and Colonialism, Modern Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Cambridge University, 1/1982
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities, Scripps College, Claremont, 01/01/1998-  
Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, 01/01/1993-01/01/1997  
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, 01/01/1987-01/01/1993  
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, 01/01/1983-01/01/1987  
Graduate Instructor in English Literature, Cambridge University, 01/01/1979-01/01/1981  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

David Lloyd specializes in Irish literature and culture and in cultural and aesthetic theory. He is the author of Nationalism and Minor Literature (1987); Anomalous States (1993); and Ireland After History (2000); irish Times: Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 2003, David Lloyd has published primarily in the field of Irish literature and culture and on colonialism and nationalism. His books in Irish Studies are: Nationalism and Minor Literature: James Clarence Mangan and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism (1987); Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Postcolonial Moment (1993); Ireland After History (2000); and a special issue of Interventions, "Ireland's Modernities" (2003). A new collection of essays, Irish Times: Essays on the History and Temporality of Irish Modernity will appear from Field Day Press, Dublin, 2008. He is currently at work on a further book, A History of the Irish Orifice: the Irish Body and Modernity. He has co-published several other books: The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse, co-edited with Abdul JanMohamed (1991); The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital, co-edited with Lisa Lowe (1997); and Culture and the State, co-authored with Paul Thomas (1997). He is also working on a study of culture and ideology, Aesthetic Education: the Cultural Formation of the Subject. He teaches on Irish literature, cultural and postcolonial theory and British and Anglophone literature from Romanticism to the present. He joined USC in Fall 2003 after teaching at Scripps College, Claremont, and the University of California, Berkeley.and is currently at work on a further book, A History of the Irish Orifice: the Irish Body and Modernity. He has co-published several other books, including Culture and the State, co-authored with Paul Thomas (1997), The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (1997), with Lisa Lowe, and The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (1991), with Abdul JanMohamed.
 

Research Specialties

(Ph.D., Cambridge University, England, 1982) Professor of English: Colonialism; Irish Literature and Cultural History; “Minority Discourse”; Ethnic Cultures; postcolonial theory
 

Publications

Book

Lloyd, D. (2007). Irish Times: Essays on the History and Temporality of Irish Modernity. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame.
Lloyd, D. (2006). Republics of Difference: Yeats, MacGreevy, Beckett. South Bend, IN: Republics of Difference: Yeats, MacGreevy, Beckett/University of Notre Dame.
 

Journal Article

Lloyd, D. (2007). The Political Economy of the Potato. Nineteenth-Century Contexts/Taylor and Francis. Vol. 29 (2), pp. 311 - 335.
Lloyd, D. (2007). "Rage against the Divine". South Atlantic Quarterly/Duke University Press. Vol. 102 (2 (Spring 2007)), pp. 345-372.
Lloyd, D. (2005). “Mobile Figures”. Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular/University of Southern California. Vol. 2
Lloyd, D. (2005). “The Indigent Sublime: Specters of Irish Hunger”. Representations/University of California Press. pp. p.152-185.
Lloyd, D. (2005). “The Subaltern in Motion: Subalternity, the Popular, and Irish Working Class History”. Postcolonial Studies/Taylor and Francis. pp. p.421-437.
Lloyd, D. (2005). "Republics of Difference: Yeats, MacGreevy, Beckett". Field Day Review/University of Notre Dame. Vol. 1 (2005), pp. 42-69..
 

Advisement

Office Hours

Tu: 10 am-12pm, and by appointment, Fall 2007   
Th: 11-12, and by appointment, Fall 2007   
 

Honors and Awards

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Support for writing a book on Beckett and painting., 2007-2008   
Recipient, Arts and Humanities Initiative grant for staged reading of my play, The Press, Spring 2008   
USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, USC Parents Association Teaching Award Nominee, 2006-2007   
 

Service to the University

Committees

Vice-President, College Faculty Council, 2006-2007   
 

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards

Advisory Editor, Internationalist Review of Irish Culture, 2007-  
Member, International Advisory Board, Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation, 2006-  
International Editorial Board Member, Postcolonial Studies, 1999-  
Member, editorial board., Topoi, 1998-  
 

Professional Memberships

American Studies Association, 2006-  
Modern Language Association, 1983-  
American Comparative Literature Association, 2006-2007   
 
 
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