Mary Isbell’s Profile

Why did that movie make you cry? Why does that novel make you feel like you can do anything? Why do you always feel better after listening to that stand-up comic? How is it possible that you fell in love with that […]

How do we decide what creative works to engage with? How did people discover what they loved before the Internet? How often is an algorithm influencing what we choose to watch, read, or listen to? What is the […]

Are you a writer? Do you want to learn more about the publishing industry? If yes, we’ve designed this new course for you! We’re going to explore what it means to edit and publish another person’s work, wheth […]

The Connected Core makes it easy for students with a variety of interests to find relevant courses that fulfill core requirements. Connected Core courses invite students to draw meaningful connections between the […]

This course is meant to be “a study of important British writers from the Romantic era to the present,” but I propose that we approach it as an opportunity to consider the meaning of “modern” as a classif […]

Syllabus and assignments for students enrolled in Dr. Isbell’s Seminar in Academic Inquiry and Writing

Syllabus and assignments for students enrolled in Dr. Isbell’s course ”Algorithms and the Arts”

As humans, we create representations of nature in a wide range of media and for many different purposes. Examples in the creative arts include travel writing, landscape painting, field recordings of birds, and […]