Megan Isaac
Associate Professor
English
Elon University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Megan Isaac enjoys teaching courses in Shakespeare, English literature, composition, and children's and young adult literature.
Research Interest
My current projects include a study of surveillance culture in children's and young adult literature. I am interested in how the growing technologies that simultaneously provide information for us and report information about us are being represented in texts for young readers. Are these technologies portrayed as something authorities control or that an individual controls? Are they harmful or helpful? Who is represented as having the power to make decisions about the structure and use of surveillance technologies? To put this in pop culture terms--the vampire hero from Twilight, Edward Cullen, can read the minds of every character except his love interest, Bella. By the end of the series, though, she joyfully discovers the ability to open her mind to him. How does Edward's ability to spy on nearly anyone at nearly any time affect his character and a reader's perception of him? How important is privacy? Should we view the absence of it as romantic or threatening or something else?
Publications
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Isaac-Renton, M., Li, M. K., & Parsons, L. M. (2015). Cinnamon spice and everything not nice: many features of intraoral allergy to cinnamic aldehyde. Dermatitis, 26(3), 116-121.
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Isaac, M. L. (1996). Sophia Lee and the gothic of female community. Studies in the Novel, 28(2), 200-218.
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Yu, M., Bell, R. H., Ross, E. K., Lo, B. K., Isaac-Renton, M., Martinka, M., ... & McElwee, K. J. (2010). Lichen planopilaris and pseudopelade of Brocq involve distinct disease associated gene expression patterns by microarray. Journal of dermatological science, 57(1), 27-36.
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Isaac, M. L. (2000). Heirs to Shakespeare: Reinventing the bard in young adult literature. Boynton/Cook.
