Lloyd Alimboyao Sy

Lloyd Alimboyao Sy joins the FAS as Assistant Professor of English, after spending a year as a Postdoctoral Associate. He specializes in American literature from the long 19th century, especially Native US literature; environmental humanities; and film. He is completing a book manuscript called The Shape of Forest to Come: The Environmental Imagination of Native US Literature, which is about how Native writers from William Apess to Zitkála-Šá responded to the broad-scale sylvan destruction of American environment by generating new ways of being with the self and with others. His essays have appeared or are forthcoming at ELH, American Quarterly, American Literary History, Early American Literature, J19, Arizona Quarterly, Early American Studies, and other journals. Lloyd received a PhD in English from the University of Virginia, and an AB in computer science and English from Brown University. At Yale, he is also affiliated with American Studies and RITM.