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Lloyd Kevin Sy is an Assistant Professor of English at Yale University, where he joined the faculty in 2022. He is affiliated with the Research in Text and Media (RITM) group and the Environmental Humanities program, reflecting his interdisciplinary engagement with literature, media, and ecological thought.
His research focuses on American literature of the long nineteenth century, with specializations in Native American literatures, environmental humanities, American literary realism, and film. He explores how Indigenous writers respond to the ecological and economic transformations brought by settler colonialism, particularly through deforestation and labor history.
His recent publications span leading journals such as American Quarterly, PMLA, ELH, and Early American Literature. These works collectively examine Indigenous epistemologies, literary form, and the intersections of ecology, identity, and resistance. His scholarship reveals a consistent trajectory of reinterpreting American literary history through Indigenous worldviews and environmental critique.
His academic honors include being a Jefferson Fellow and Bradley Fellow during his doctoral studies at the University of Virginia.
- Jefferson Fellow
- Bradley Fellow
He advises emerging scholars in American and Native literatures and is currently developing his first book, The Shape of Forest to Come, which investigates the relationship between deforestation, settler capitalism, and Native literary expression. He also contributes to interdisciplinary initiatives at Yale, particularly in environmental humanities and media studies.
