Lisa Siraganian
J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and Professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University; author of The Problem of Personhood (Verso, 2026) and prior work on corporate personhood and modernism, with a background that includes a JD and interdisciplinary scholarship.
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Apr 14, 2026 • 45min
Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026)
Lisa Siraganian, a Johns Hopkins scholar trained in law and comparative thought, explores how extending personhood to corporations, trees, fetuses, and robots reshapes law and politics. She traces corporate personhood’s history, critiques environmental and AI personhood, and argues for focusing on duties, collective publicness, and human-centered protection instead of magical legal fictions.
Apr 14, 2026 • 45min
Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026)
Lisa Siraganian, a humanities scholar and professor at Johns Hopkins, explores how legal fictions reshape who counts as a person. She traces corporate personhood’s influence on rights for trees, fetuses, and robots. Short conversations probe environmental personhood, AI citizenship stunts, and alternatives that stress duties and political solidarity.
