Sheila Lloyd, Ph.D.

Administrative Experience Mills College Mills is an independent HSI liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students with graduate programs for all genders. The College educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept the challenges of their creative visions, and to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to effect thoughtful changes in a global, multicultural society. The College employs 80 full-time faculty. The total student body is 1,122 with 63% students of color and 43% first-generation students in the undergraduate population. 55% of the graduate population are students of color.

2018-Present Associate Provost for Teaching, Learning, and Faculty Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence Accreditation Liaison Officer · Created the vision for and founded the Center for Faculty ​ ​ Excellence · Direct department chairs and program heads on actions related to ​ ​ personnel matters · Supervise faculty personnel reviews (pre-tenure, tenure, ​ ​ promotion, and merit) · Created new systems for academic department and program ​ ​ review and student learning assessment · Chair the Harvard Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher ​ ​ Education (COACHE) Faculty Satisfaction Survey project and design programs to enhance faculty retention and improve work experience · Designed new, equitable system for tenure-track hiring that ​ ​ ​ resulted in the hires of significant numbers of faculty from underrepresented groups in higher education · Developed mentoring program for early career faculty ​ ​ · Oversaw and shepherded Mills College through a successful ​ ​ eight-year WASC Senior Commission of Universities and Colleges (WSCUC) re-accreditation process · Member of bargaining committee in renegotiation of the Mills ​ ​ College and Service Employees International Union, Local 1021 Adjunct Faculty Collective Bargaining Agreement · Direct External Grants and Gifts Team and review external grant ​ ​ applications

1 · Oversee faculty development grant awards (research, travel, ​ ​ teaching) process · Manage the Center for Faculty Excellence budget ​ ​ · Work with Provost on academic budget allocation decisions ​ ​ · Represent the Provost at external and internal events ​ ​ · Supervise Five Direct Reports: Dean of Digital Learning; ​ ​ Instructional Technology Administrator; Instructional Designer; Director of Planning, Analytics, and Effectiveness; Administrative Specialist, Center for Faculty Excellence

University of Redlands Redlands is a private liberal arts university emphasizing personalized education, academic rigor, curricular diversity, and innovative teaching. The University employs 220 faculty across three Schools (Arts and Sciences, Business, and Education). The undergraduate residential liberal arts program enrolls 2500 students. Approximately 2400 adult learners pursue graduate degrees, professional certificates, continuing studies, and undergraduate degree completion on the main campus, at eight regional sites, and online.

2015-2018 Director of Assessment and Accreditation Liaison Officer, Academic Affairs · Developed an institutional-wide assessment system in association ​ ​ with the Deans and Provost · Redesigned and managed the academic program review process ​ ​ for all schools and units · Provided regular reports to the Academic Affairs Committee of ​ ​ the Board of Trustees · Coordinated general education assessment of the College of Arts ​ ​ and Sciences general education program · Met annually with program chairs and directors to review ​ ​ progress on Program Review Five-Year Action Plans or MOUs · Developed Institutional Learning Outcomes ​ ​ · Led successful WSCUC Accreditation Mid-Cycle Review ​ ​

Selected University/College Leadership Positions 2020-Present Member, Intersectional Antiracism Team (IAT) Chair, IAT Faculty and Staff Professional Development and Reflection Working Group 2020 Chair, Instructional Designer Search Committee 2019 Chair, Director of Planning, Analytics, and Effectiveness Search Committee 2018-2020 Co-Chair, Committee on Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice 2016-2018 Facilitator, President’s University-wide Council on Inclusiveness and Community, University of Redlands Member and Lead Writer, General Education Revision Committee, University of Redlands

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Education 1999 Ph.D. in English Literature, Cornell University 1991 M.A. in English Literature, Cornell University 1985 B.A. in English Literature, Yale College

Academic Appointments 2018-Present Professor, Mills College 2018 Professor, University of Redlands 2012-2018 Associate Professor, University of Redlands 2006-2012 Assistant Professor, University of Redlands 1999-2006 Assistant Professor, Wayne State University 1999 F. I. Carpenter Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Chicago 1997-1999 Lecturer, Wayne State University 1994-1997 Visiting Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo

Courses Taught Mills College th 20 -Centu​ ry African-American Literature ​ Survey of African-American Literature Survey of American Literature II Special Topics: The Black Radical Tradition U.S. Literature and Social Change

Awards and Honors 2020 Certificate of Commendation for the Advancement of Digital Learning 2018 Sabbatical Leave Fellowship (University of Redlands) 2014 Outstanding Service Award Sabbatical Leave Fellowship 2007 Faculty Research Grant 2001 Sabbatical Leave Fellowship (Wayne State University) 2000 Keal Fellowship 1999 University Research Grant 1999 Women/Minority Fellowship 1998 Humanities Center Summer Research Fellowship 1998 Women/Minority Fellowship 1998 College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs Summer Research Fellowship 1993-94 Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (Cornell University) 1991-92 Minority Graduate Fellowship 1992 Minority Summer Research Fellowship (also received 1990) 1988-89 Graduate Fellowship

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Selected Administrative and Scholarly Professional Development 2020 “Liberatory Design for Equity.” National Equity Project. Oakland, CA.

“Building a Grants Seeking Culture.” Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U). Washington, DC

“A Collaborative Approach to Advancing Your Diversity and Inclusion Training Initiatives” Academic Impressions.

“Inclusive Pedagogy in Higher Education: A Mindset and Continual Practice.” Academic Impressions.

2019 “Is There a Rubric for That? A Decade of VALUE and the Future of Higher Education.” AAC&U. Atlanta, GA

2018 “Advancing Diversity through Strategic Micro-, Meso-, and Macro-Level Leadership.” AAC&U. Washington, DC

2017 Institute for General Education Assessment. AAC&U. Loyola University Chicago

2016 “Cultivating a Culture of Evidence-Informed Decision Making: Foundational Principles for Higher Education Leaders.” AAC&U. Washington, DC

2015 Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) Institute, Bryn Mawr College

Assessment 201 Workshop. WSCUC. California Polytechnic University, Pomona

2013 “Is There a Case for the Liberal Arts?” American Conference of Academic Deans and Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Fifth Biennial Conference. Memphis, TN

2012 “The Gendered Liberal Arts? Femininity, Masculinity and the Future of Liberal Education.” Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts: Westmont College. Santa Barbara, CA

2011 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar: “African-American Struggles for Freedom and Civil Rights, 1865-1965”; W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. Harvard University

Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History: “Slave Narratives Summer Seminar.” Yale University

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications and Grants 2021 A Great Debt: Black Literature and the Making of an Indebted Race from the New Deal to Neoliberalism. Book Manuscript. In Progress. ​

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“Learning to Read in Black and White: The Pedagogy of Violence in Richard Wright’s ‘The Ethics of Living Jim Crow.’” Under review.

2020 “Langston Hughes and the Literary Ca(u)se against Jim Crow.” Modern ​ Philology. 117.4. ​

(Nominated for 2021 David D. Anderson Award for Outstanding Essay in Midwestern Literary Studies)

2018 Principal Investigator, $500,000 Mellon Foundation Higher Learning (formerly, Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities) Grant

2013 “Sara Baartman and the ‘Inclusive-Exclusions’ of Neoliberalism.” Meridians: ​ Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. 11.2. ​ ​ ​

“Melancholia.” In XcP: CrossCultural Poetics. 16/17. Special Double Issue, ​ ​ “Word,” for the CrossCultural Poetics Dictionary Project.

2005 “W.E.B. Du Bois and the Production of the Racial Picturesque. Public Culture. ​ ​ 17.2. Special Issue on the Centennial of The Souls of Black Folk. ​ ​

2001 “‘As’ in the Body as Metaphor.” Exhibition Essay. Detroit Artists Market.

1999 “Plots on an Alternative Map: Emplotments of Pan-Africanism in W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Alice Walker.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Cornell Univ.

1997 “Revisionist Desires: Gender, Culture, and Diasporic Consciousness in Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy. Contemporary Literature of the African ​ ​ ​ Diaspora. Eds. Olga Barrios and Bernard Bell. León, Spain: Universidad de ​ Salamanca.

1996 “When Race Is Not Enough.” Circles: The Buffalo Women’s Journal of Law ​ and Social Policy. 4. ​

1995 “Transnationalism in Its African-American Travels: The Politics of Location in Langston Hughes’s I Wonder as I Wonder.” Afro-Americans in New York Life ​ ​ ​ and History. 19.2. ​

Selected Conference and Other Academic Presentations 2021 “The Black Radical Tradition in an Age of White Rage.” Moderator. Virtual Public Humanities Panel Discussion for “We Are the Voices.”

2020 “Knowledge for Freedom: ‘Black Study’ and the Present Struggle.”

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2017 ““The Thrill is Gone’: On Love and Loss in Cruel Times.” University of Redlands

2015 “‘Color[ed] around the Globe’: The Jim Crow Car as a Site of Memory and Identification in Langston Hughes.” Modern Language Association. Vancouver

“Sustainable Assessment: Growing and Supporting a Faculty-Owned Assessment System.” New American Colleges & University Summer Institute. Hamline University. St. Paul, MN

2011 “No Exceptions: The Other Wes Moore’s Challenge to Exceptionalism.” History ​ ​ Forum. California State University, Bakersfield

“Push(ing) Precious: Desire and Fantasy Under Neoliberalism.” Critical Ethnic ​ ​ ​ ​ Studies Association. University of California, Riverside

2008 “Lynched: Reflection and Resistance,” Panelist—University of Redlands

2007 “Performances of African-American Feminist Transnationalism in Elizabeth Alexander’s and Suzan-Lori Parks’s Representations of the ‘Hottentot Venus.’”—National Association of African-American Studies. Baton Rouge, LA

2006 “Islam, Empire, and Early America,” Chair—American Studies Association (ASA), Oakland, CA

“Revisiting Orientalism: Arabs in the American Imaginary,” Chair—Mapping Arab Diasporas: Border Crossings, Exile and Displacement International Conference, Dearborn, MI

2003 “The Picturesque in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk”—Northwestern ​ ​ University, Evanston, IL

2000 “From the Racial Grotesque to the Sexual Sublime: Questions of Mastery in African-American Literature and Culture”—Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago

1999 “’As a Black Man He Could Identify with Japan’: The ‘Fronting of Race and Culture in Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring—ASA/CSA, Montreal ​ ​

1999 “The Scandalous Politics of Neo-Colonialism and Female Sexuality in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People—North American Labor History Annual ​ ​ Convention, Wayne State University

1998 “‘Color Around the Globe’: Langston Hughes’s Contributions to a Black Pacific”—Modern Language Association, San Francisco

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1997 “What’s Left of Multiculturalism?”—Beyond Multiculturalism, Freie Universität ​ ​ of Berlin, American House, and John F. Kennedy Institute. Berlin

1996 “Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality,” Program on Race and Psychoanalysis Arranged by the Division on Psychological Approaches to Literature, Chair and Respondent—Modern Language Association, Washington, DC

Professional and Community Services 2020 Reader, Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures ​ WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC) Re-Accreditation Team Member, Humphreys University 2019 WSCUC Special Visit Team Member. Fresno Pacific University 2018 Co-Writer, Lumina Foundation Grant Proposal for Race on Campus Conference, University of Redlands 2005-2006 Editorial Board Member, Detroit, I.E.(an Arts and Culture Journal) ​ ​ 2002-2005 Board Member, Center for Research on Citizenship, Wayne State University 2001 Manuscript Reader, Wayne State University Press 1999-2000 Co-Chair, American Studies Association Pre-Convention Scholarly and Community Collaborations and Local Arrangements Committees, Detroit 1998-2000 Reader, Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters ​ 1998-1999 Co-Organizer, The City and the University: Urban Education and the Liberal Arts, Wayne State University 1997-2003 Editorial Board Member, Criticism ​ 1996-1997 Grant Writer and Coordinator, Visions of Empowerment: A Festival Celebrating Black Women in the Arts, Buffalo 1996 Judge, Western New York Writers-in-Residence Prize, Just Buffalo Literary Center 1996 Board Member, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo 1996 Co-Organizer, Border Disputes: A Symposium on Postcolonial and Multicultural Literatures and Cultures, SUNY at Buffalo 1995 Curator, “Shades and Spirits: Independent Films by African-American Women,” Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center with Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (CEPA) Gallery, Buffalo

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