Lisa Day

Lisa Day is the Director of Women & Gender Studies and Associate Professor of English at EKU. Dr. Day joined the EKU faculty in 2001 and specializes in 19^th and 20^th century American literature, African-Caribbean literature, trauma studies, and gender theory. In the summer of 2016, Dr. Day taught an EKU Education Abroad course in Florence, Italy, exploring Feminism and Beauty in Italian Renaissance art, an experience which serves as the inspiration for her Women’s History Month keynote address.

In addition to directing WGS, being a certified instructor and a past director of Green Dot @ EKU, Dr. Day serves as EKU's Survivors' Advocate, as the co-chair of the University Diversity Committee, and as a Faculty Innovator for the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences. Dr. Day is also an organizer of the EKU Annual Herstory Conference now entering its 12^th year.

A native of Mammoth Cave, Lisa Day earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Western Kentucky University and her doctoral degree in American and Multi-Ethnic Literature from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill. In 2009, Dr. Day co-edited Journeys Home: An Anthology of Contemporary African Diasporic Experience with EKU colleague Dr. Salome Nnoromele. She also co-edited a collection of essays on gender and the American short story cycle with Julie Hensley. In 2011, Day was honored by EKU’s International Alumni Association with an Excellence in Teaching Award, one of the university’s highest honors for faculty. At the alumni awards banquet, Day was praised for her ability to relate to students on a personal level and motivate them to always give their best. In addition, in 2014-15 Dr. Day was a nominee for EKU Critical Thinking Teacher of the Year.

As Director of WGS, Dr. Day manages a multidisciplinary program that offers both a minor and a certificate in Women and Gender Studies. The program acquaints students with the growing research on women and gender studies, its courses addressing the intersections of gender, race, class, sexualities and abilities and promoting active learning and social engagement. Students are encouraged to analyze competing perspectives and to integrate knowledge across traditional academic boundaries. In addition, they learn to identify and analyze gender-based assumptions and biases and to recognize their consequences on individual, social and cultural levels.

Sponsored by the Women & Gender Studies Program, the Office of Diversity, and the Honors Program

Sources:

http://wgs.eku.edu/people/day

http://www.eku.edu/news/day-named-director-women-and-gender-studies-program

Published on March 02, 2017