Dr. Lily Abadal is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at the Judy Genshaft Honors College at the University of South Florida and a Faculty Fellow with the DELTA Project, a major initiative of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good at the University of Notre Dame. Her scholarship explores the intersection of virtue ethics, pedagogy, technology, and artificial intelligence. She has published in numerous academic journals and edited volumes, including The Journal of Religious Ethics, Teaching Philosophy, and Frontiers in Sociology. She is currently writing a book on pedagogy, virtue formation, and AI for University of Oklahoma Press.
In addition to her academic scholarship, Lily writes public philosophy on education, technology, culture, and virtue ethics. Her work has appeared in Public Discourse, Inside Higher Ed, The American Spectator, and forthcoming work in New Polity. She also publishes regularly on her Substack, Wisdom in the Machine Age, where she writes about AI, pedagogy, intellectual virtue, and the formation of the human person in a culture of technological convenience.
Prior to higher education, Lily taught at the elementary and high school levels and also served as Director for Advancement at her alma mater, St. Petersburg Catholic High School. Drawing on experience across multiple educational settings, her work focuses on helping educators respond thoughtfully to the challenges posed by artificial intelligence while remaining mission-centered, formation-focused, and attentive to the dignity of both students and teachers. Her research and public scholarship examine how schools can cultivate intellectual virtue, deep learning, and human flourishing in an age increasingly shaped by technological convenience and automation.
