Emily Isaacson

Emily Isaacson is a Professor of English and Director of the Life of the Mind Honors Program at Heidelberg University, in Tiffin, Ohio. Prior to arriving at Heidelberg, she was on faculty at Chowan University in rural North Carolina, where she served as the Coordinator of the Chowan Critical Thinking Program. Trained initially as an early modernist, she studied at Augustana College and the University of Missouri, Columbia. Her scholarly interests include empathy in the literature classroom, early modern city comedy, as well as the intersection of the Humanities and Honors Education, and her work has appeared in such places as the Ben Jonson Journal and The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. In addition to her work teaching and researching, she has been known to write poetry and dabble in photography.

Courses Taught

Shakespeare
British Literature to 1798
Women's Literature
Intermediate Writing
College Writing
Introduction to the Life of the Mind
The Scholar Seminar: Intellectual Circles
Studies in British Literature
Studies in World Literature
Studies in the Novel

Expertise

Shakespeare, Jane Austen, early novels, drama, teaching empathy

Research Interests

Early modern city comedy, early modern insults, empathy in the classroom

Resume

Isaacson CV