David Lloyd, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, is a poet, playwright and critic, working primarily on Irish culture and on postcolonial and cultural theory. His most recent critical books include Beckett’s Thing: Painting and Theatre (2016) and Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics (2019). Poetry collections include Arc & Sill: Poems 1979-2009 (2012); Bar Null (2019) and Furrow Archive (2019). His play, The Press/Le Placard is available in a bilingual edition from Presses Universitaires du Midi, 2018.