About

David Colles Lloyd

Professor of English

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

LINKS
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: Temporalities of Modernity was published by Field Day Books, 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

Tenure Track Appointments
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  
 

Visiting and Temporary Appointments
Senior Faculty Fellow and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Irish Studies Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2008   
 

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
 

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations
""On Republican Reading: Ernie O’Malley, Irish Intellectual"", Lecture/Seminar, , National University of Ireland, Galway, Moore Institute, Invited, 11/2008  
""Black Irish, Irish Whiteness, and Atlantic State Formation"", Lecture/Seminar, , Boston College, Programs in Irish and Africana Studies, Invited, 10/2008  
""The Extorted Voice: from Guantanamo back to How It Is"", Lecture/Seminar, , University of Oregon, Eugene, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, Invited, 10/2008  
""The Extorted Voice: from Guantanamo back to How It Is"", Lecture/Seminar, , Occidental College, Department of English, Invited, 10/2008  
""Time Passante: from Forensic to Interrogation Modernity"", Lecture/Seminar, , Ateneo de Manila, Philippines, Dept of English and Kritika Kultura, Invited, 07/2008  
""Time Passante: from Forensic to Interrogation Modernity"", Lecture/Seminar, , Liverpool Hope University, Department of Theatre, Invited, 05/2008  
""Time Passante: from Forensic to Interrogation Modernity", ", The Vernacular, Keynote Lecture, , Cornell University, Invited, 04/2008  
""Time Passante: from Forensic to Interrogation Modernity"", Lecture/Seminar, , University of Pittsburgh, Department of English and Boundary 2, Invited, 03/2008  
""Time Passante: from Forensic to Interrogation Modernity", ", "Postcolonialism and the Hit of the Real", Talk/Oral Presentation, , New York University, Invited, 03/2008  
""Time Passante: from Forensic to Interrogation Modernity"", Lecture/Seminar, , University of Notre Dame, Institute for Irish Studies, Invited, 02/2008  
": "To Live Surrounded by a White Song: The Sublimation of Race in Experiment"", Modern Language Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Chicago, Modern Language Association, 12/2007  
""Keyword: Aesthetics", ", Subaltern-Popular Workshop, Roundtable/Panel, , U.C. Santa Barbara, U.C. Subaltern-Popular Multi-Campus Research Group, Invited, 11/2007  
""Time Passante: from Forensic to Interrogation Modernity"", Clinton American Studies Summer School, University College Dublin, Keynote Lecture, , Dublin, Ireland, Invited, 07/2007  
 

Publications

Book
Lloyd, D. (2008). Irish Times: Temporalities of Modernity. Dublin: Field Day/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..
 

Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works
Play, Staged reading of one act play, The Press, sponsored by USC Visions and Voices, 24th Street Theater, Los Angeles, February 2008., 02/2008  
Play, Staged reading of one act play, The Press, at Ateneo de Manila, Philippines, July 2008., 07/2008  
 

Honors and Awards
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Recipient, Support for writing a book on Beckett and painting., 2008-2009   
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 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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