Lloyd Alimboyao Sy

Lloyd Alimboyao Sy (he/him/his) works on American literature, mostly from the long nineteenth century, focusing on Native literatures, the environmental humanities, American literary realism, and film. He is completing his first book project, The Shape of Forest to Come, which reads the history of deforestation and the nineteenth-century American logging industry next to the works of Native writers who respond to the environmental and economic transformations of settler colonialism. Broadly, the project aims to register how these authors discern forms of life and labor possible amidst material and ecological devastation.

Before joining the faculty at Yale in 2022, he received a Ph.D. in English at the University of Virginia, where he was a Jefferson Fellow and a Bradley Fellow. At Yale, he is affiliated with RITM and the Environmental Humanities program. His work appears or is forthcoming at PMLA, American Quarterly, American Literary History, and ELH, among other venues.