Megan S. Lloyd, Ph.D., is the Manus Cooney Distinguished Service Professor of English at King's College, where she teaches Shakespeare, medieval and early modern literature, first year composition and critical reading. Her research interests include Shakespeare, early modern drama, and early modern Wales. She is the author of The Valiant Welshman, the Scottish James, and the Formation of Great Britain and "Speak it in Welsh": Wales and the Welsh Language in Shakespeare. She started her academic career at the University of Rio Grande, where she was the first director of the Madog Center for Welsh Studies.
Education
B.A., English, Wittenberg University
M.A., English, The Ohio State University
Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Publications and Presentations
“Staging ‘Skimble-Skamble Stuff”: I Henry IV and the Welsh Voice” with Beth Brown, in Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2022.
“To be, or not to be … the Lion King: Existentialism in Disney and Shakespeare,” and “Unruly Ariel: Not Born but Made a Woman” in Disney and Philosophy, ed. Richard Davis. Wiley. 2019.
The Valiant Welshman, the Scottish James, and the Formation of Great Britain. Walter de Gruyter. 2018.
“You Don’t Need Ovaries to Enjoy Madame Bovary!”: or Why Flaubert’s Novel Works in the Critical Reading Classroom” forthcoming in Pedagogy, Fall 2014.
“Rhymer, Minstrel Lady Mortimer and the Power of Welsh Words" in Shakespeare and Wales, ed. Willy Maley and Philip Schwyzer. Ashgate. 2010.
