dr christopher lloyd is an associate professor of learning and teaching at the university of hertfordshire. he works in the school of creative arts and the centre for learning, access, and student success.
chris has written and edited three academic books, with two others forthcoming. he also writes poetry and short stories. his first poetry pamphlet is pick up your feelings.
chris is also the vice-chair of the british association of american studies; the co-editor of the european journal of american culture; and the co-chair of the lgbtq+ staff network at hertfordshire.
his research and teaching specialisms include: contemporary us literature and culture; queer studies; animal studies; memory studies; the us south; inclusive and critical pedagogy.
below you’ll find links to chris’ work. click the drop-down arrows to find out more.
get in touch if you want to talk about any of it.
academic writing
monographs
forthcoming. a queer bestiary: non/humans in contemporary us literature. university of georgia press.
2018. corporeal legacies in the us south: memory and embodiment in contemporary culture. palgrave macmillan.
2015. rooting memory, rooting place: regionalism in the twenty-first-century american south. palgrave macmillan.
edited volumes
forthcoming. with loïc bourdeau. the edinburgh companion to the millennial novel. edinburgh university press.
2023. with hilary emmett. the affects of pedagogy in literary studies. routledge.
2020. with caroline blinder. “us topographics: imaging national landscapes.” journal of american studies 54, no. 3.
2017. “the twenty-first-century southern novel.” mississippi quarterly 68, no.3-4.
2014. with nicolas brinded and gilles vandivinit. “american exceptionalism in the twenty-first-century. european journal of american culture 33, no. 3.
journal articles
2020. “photo-text topographics: memory and place in sally mann’s hold still.” journal of american studies 54, no. 3: 564-581.
2020. “queer densities in garth greenwell’s what belongs to you: narrative, memory, corporeality.” comparative american studies: an international journal 17, no. 1: 41-57.
2017. “silent landscapes, textured memory: keith morris washington’s lynching paintings.” european journal of american culture 36, no. 2: 105-120.
2017. with jessica rapson. “‘family territory’ to the ‘circumference of the earth’: local and planetary memories of climate change in barbara kingsolver’s flight behaviour.” textual practice 31, no. 5: 911-931.
2016. “bodies that (don’t) matter: regulating race on the toilet in kathryn stockett’s the help.” studies in american fiction 43, no. 2: 259-275.
2016. “creaturely, throwaway life after katrina: salvage the bones and beasts of the southern wild.” south: a scholarly journal 48, no. 2: 246-264.
book chapters
2023. “ghosts in mississippi: jesmyn ward’s sing, unburied, sing.” in jesmyn ward: new critical essays, edited by arin keeble, sheri-marie harrison, and maria torres-quevedo, 240-253. edinburgh university press.
2023. “dis/comforts.” in the affects of pedagogy in literary studies, edited by hilary emmett and christopher lloyd, 97-107. routledge.
2022. “call-and-response: black music and literature, from langston hughes to morgan parker.” in the routledge companion to music and modern literature, edited by rachael durkin, peter dayan, axel englund, and katharina clausius, 369-376. routledge.
2022. “domesticating political feeling, affect and memory in marilynne robinson’s home.” in marilynne robinson: critical essays, edited by rachel sykes, jennifer daly, and anna maguire elliott, 165-181. manchester university press.
2019. “flooding mississippi: memory, race and landscape in twenty-first-century fiction.” in ecocriticism and the future of southern studies, edited by zackary vernon, 161-173. louisiana state university press.
2019. “‘I told you not to go into that house’: get out and horror’s racial politics.” in make america hate again: trump-era horror and the politics of fear, edited by victoria mccollum, 109-118. routledge.
2019. “colson whitehead.” in the routledge companion to twenty-first-century literary fiction, edited by daniel o’gorman and robert eagleston, 434-444. routledge.
2017. “sexual perversity in new york?” in reading lena dunham’s girls: feminism, post-feminism, authenticity, and gendered performance in contemporary television, edited by imelda whelehan and meredith nash, 197-207. palgrave macmillan.
2016. “southern gothic.” in american gothic culture: an edinburgh companion, edited by jason haslam and joel faflak, 79-91. edinburgh university press, 2016.
2014. “dave eggers’ zeitoun and katrina’s southern biopolitics.” in ten years after katrina: critical perspectives of the storm’s effect on american culture and identity, edited by mary ruth marotte and glenn jellenik, 153-170. lexington books, 2014.
creative writing
poetry pamphlets
2024. pick up your feelings. fourteen publishing.
2021. put my heart down. ghost city press.
poems
2024. ”contact high.” annie journal, issue 3.
2024. ”in relation.” bath magg, issue 13.
2024. ”turbulence” and ”the thing behind the diner in mulholland drive.” and other poems, issue 3.
2024. ”the space between.” dust poetry magazine, issue 11.
2024. “open your eyes,” “it’s not gay if you don’t look,” and “swimming in the wrong.” action, spectacle, winter II.
2023. “skin.” perverse, issue 7.
2023. “park, sunday, pm.” lighthouse literary journal, issue 26.
2023. “go tell it” and “knit.” &change, issue 2.
2022. “after therapy I go on walks.” fourteen poems, issue 9.
2022. “active adaptation.” kissing dynamite, issue 46.
2022. “celebration.” the cardiff review, Sept.
2022. “alt,” “after,” and “commerce.” queerlings magazine, issue 6.
2021. “unthinkable.” homology lit, issue 8.
2021. “runaway.” feed, issue 2.14.
2021. “window seat.” pøst, issue 8.
2021. “fort.” windows facing windows review, issue 3.
2021. “close.” impossible archetype: a journal of lgbtq+ poetry, issue 9.
2020. “at night.” stone of madness press, issue 5 (2020).
2020. “red” and “animal crossing.” –algia, issue 3 (2020).
2020. “there’s a woman who.” visual verse: an anthology of art and words, vol. 7, no. 11.
2020. “hymn.” impossible archetype: a journal of lgbtq+ poetry, issue 8.
2009. “horses.” 14 magazine, issue 8.
book reviews
books up close
recent videos:
published reviews
2024. “justin torres. blackouts. granta, 2023.” fruit journal, may.
2023. “lauren groff. the vaster wilds. hutchinson heinemann, 2023.” the cardiff review, may.
2023. “jacqueline rose. the plague. fitzcarraldo editions, 2023.” the cardiff review, April.
2021. “mark rifkin. fictions of land and flesh: blackness, indigeneity, speculation. duke university press, 2019.” journal of american culture 44, no. 2: 156-7.
2020: “ben knights. pedagogic criticism: reconfiguring university english studies. palgrave macmillan, 2017.” arts and humanities in higher education 19, no. 2: 167-171.
2016. “ashley clark. facing blackness: media and minstrelsy in spike lee’s bamboozled. the critical press, 2015.” black camera 8, no. 1: 240-242.
2016. “martyn bone, brian ward, and william a. link, eds. creating and consuming the american south. university press of florida, 2015.” journal of american studies 50, no. 3.
2015. “lucy bond and jessica rapson, eds. the transcultural turn: interrogating memory between and beyond borders. walter de gruyter, 2014.” memory studies 8, no. 4: 492-4.
2014. “vincent woodard. the delectable negro: human consumption and homoeroticism within us slave culture. new york university press, 2014.“ american studies 53, no. 4: 108-9.
teaching
uni of hertfordshire
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american voices: introduction to us literature and culture; texts up close: reading and interpretation; identity and contemporary writing; introduction to american studies; making america: studies in american culture and society; technology, terror, and transformation: literature from the fin-de-siècle to wwi; writing and revolution: literature from the romantics to the victorians; black lives matter: activism and race equity; twentieth-century us literature and culture; american literature to 1900; enlightenment literature; twenty-first-century american writing; euro-crime on page and screen.
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us culture and #blacklivesmatter; research methods; linking pedagogic theory to practice; dark heritage; lgbtq+ heritage.
other institutions
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imagining America: introduction to american literature; approaches to texts; introduction to american literature and culture; further studies in american literature and culture; inventing the nation: american literature in the mid-nineteenth century; cultural memory; writing sexuality; modern american fiction
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the twentieth-century american novel
other:
african american cinema; the deep south on screen; filming new york; cinema and the american landscape; queer(ing) cinema.
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