Lisa Daily

Lisa Daily is a cultural studies scholar with broadly conceived interests centered on visual media, capitalist formations, humanitarianism, and consumer/commodity cultures with a focus on issues of in/justice and power regarding race, gender, class politics, and geopolitical divides. Her current work engages these themes through two related but distinct projects: a critical examination of the turn towards ethical capitalism, its response to capitalist crises, and attempts to make capitalism more equitable, sustainable, and “conscious.” Examples of this abound—from commodities that vow to “do good” with every purchase to the passing of B-Corp legislation. The next project focuses on humanitarianism and digital technologies, critically considering the techno-utopian promise of the “empathy machine” to more fully actualize the embodiment of distant suffering for privileged spectators. In addition to serving as Gallatin’s Director of Community Engagement, Daily serves on the governing board for the Cultural Studies Association. Prior to joining Gallatin, she managed several grant-funded creative writing and cultural exchange programs at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and taught Global Affairs, Cultural Studies, and humanities courses at George Mason University and the University of South Florida.