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Lisa Siraganian is the J.R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and Professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. Her work bridges legal theory, literary studies, and modernist analysis. She holds a J.D. from a New Directions Fellowship-supported program, enabling multidisciplinary scholarship.
Her research focuses on American literature and modernism, with specializations in law and literature, literary/legal theory, aesthetics, and 20th-century intellectual history. Key works include Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons (Oxford 2020), awarded the MSA Book Prize and MLA Calinescu Prize, and Modernism's Other Work (Oxford 2012). Her scholarship has been funded by the NEH, ACLS, and Mellon Foundation.
Publications analyze intersections of corporate personhood, legal philosophy, and artistic autonomy, often through interdisciplinary frameworks. She co-edits The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Vol. D: 1914–1945). Teaching interests include 'Business Fictions,' 'Theory, Now and Then,' and courses on autonomy and critique.
Awards include prestigious book prizes recognizing her transformative contributions to modernist studies. She advises graduate students on modernist poetry, law-humanities intersections, and multidisciplinary aesthetics, with past dissertations exploring topics like modernist poetry’s relationship to photography, labor in feminist art, and speculative fiction.
