Christopher Lloyd

Christopher is Lecturer in English Literature in the School of Humanities. He joined the university in January 2016. His research interests include contempoary American literature, culture of the American South, and cultural memory. 

Christopher is the author of the monograph Rooting Memory, Rooting Place: Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) as well as essays and articles on various aspects of American culture. He has co-edited a special issue on American Exceptionalism and has a forthcoming issue on the contemporary Southern novel. 

His current project, Corporeal Legacies, analyses recent Southern literature and film through the lens of embodiment. Using theoretical frames such as animal studies, new materialism and psychoanalysis, Christopher reads regional history and memory into twenty-first-century texts. 

Current teaching:

- Technology, Terror and Transformation: Literature from the Fin de Siècle to the First World War

- Twentieth-Century North American Writing 

- Enlightenment Literature 

Christopher's teaching specialisms include American literature and culture from the colonial period to the present day, African-American culture, and memory.