Isabelle Bishop

UNT Faculty Profile

• B.A. Philosophy with a minor in Peace Studies, Marquette University
• M.A. Philosophy, University of North Texas
• Interests: Critical Food Studies, Feminist and Queer Theories, Affect Theory, Phenomenology, Environmental Humanities, Social and Political Philosophy, Climate Change.

Isabelle is a PhD candidate in the Philosophy and Religion department at UNT. Her dissertation explores ordinary life through the lens of the contemporary supermarket. She attends to how these food spaces reproduce and are produced by dominant orientations to food, family relations, and the environment. She is interested in exploring the role of food and food spaces in imagining, forging, and living out social and political alternatives in the midst of climate chaos. Her work is interdisciplinary, engaging with food studies, cultural criticism, and environmental philosophy. She is a Graduate Assistant for the UNT Diamond Eagle Student Resource Center and co-editor of the Graduate Journal for Food Studies. Outside of academia, she works as a sourdough bread baker focused on whole grains and regenerative agriculture. Find her recent publication on the supermarket and the nuclear family here.