Iselin’s writing spans a variety of subjects and genres, but at bottom she is committed to the art of narrative nonfiction storytelling. She is currently working on a book about milk’s entanglements with race, gender, and species, as well as a collection of essays about grief.

Academic scholarship

• Cultivated Meat & Milk, Entry, Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2024).

• Should the Great Food Transformation be fake-meat free? Considering strategies for a future of food that is kinder to people, animals, and the planet, Future of Food Special Volume, 6 BUS. ENTREPRENEURSHIP & TAX L. REV. 96 (2022).

• I Want You to Panic: Leveraging the Rhetoric of Fear and Rage for the Future of Food, 17 J. FOOD LAW & POLICY 41 (2022).

• Trauma is not an add on: on embracing grief and trauma in our classrooms – and our lives, 25 J. LEGAL WRITING INSTITUTE 1 (2021).

• Got Mylk? The Disruptive Possibilities of Plant Milk, 84 Brooklyn Law Review 801 (2019).

  • identified as a “Notable & Quotable” in the Wall Street Journal

• Review of Making Milk: The Past, Present and Future of Our Primary Food, Hypatia Reviews Online 2019, a project of Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

• From Rice Eaters to Soy Boys: Race, Gender, and Tropes of ‘Plant Food Masculinity,’ 7 Animal Studies Journal 129 (2018) (co-authored with T. Linné).

• Commentary on feminist revision of Frontiero v. Richardson, in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (Cambridge University Press 2016).

• Duty to rescue? Exploring legal analysis through the lens of photojournalists’ storytelling dilemmas, 48 The Law Teacher: the international scholarly journal of the Association of Law Teachers 140-53 (2014).

• The World is Not Flat: Conference Planning and Presentation as Part of a Multidimensional Understanding of Scholarship, The Second Draft: The Official Magazine of the Legal Writing Institute 14-21 (Summer 2013) (co-authored with A. Stein and K. Thornton).

• Making Workshops Work (for Everyone): Creating and Capturing a Student-Driven Writing Workshop Series, 18 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research & Writing 133-39 (2010) (co-authored with B. Grillot).

Op-eds and mass-media articles

• How the alt-right uses milk to promote white supremacy, The Conversation (April 26, 2018) (co-authored with T. Linné).

• Så blev vit mjölk en symbol för vit makt (“This is how milk became a symbol for white power”), op-ed, Aftonbladet (August 6, 2017) (co-authored with T. Linné).

  • received so much attention on social media in Sweden that a political cartoon was published on the subject of the incredibly heated viral response to the op-ed

• Embracing “Mylk” over “Mylk,” op-ed, The Baltimore Sun (March 23, 2017) (co-authored with T. Linné).

Essays

• Jedi Wisdom for Grieving Your Best Friend, Tenderly (Feb. 17, 2020)

• The Great Chimera, The Columbia Journal (2019).

  • this essay was recognized by Aspen Words, who selected Iselin as one of 10 recipients to receive a 2019 Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellowship.

• Letter, in Letters to a New Vegan: Words to Inform, Inspire, and Support a Vegan Lifestyle (Lantern Books, 2015).

• Women, Changing on the Inside: Revisited, in Satya Special Edition: The Long View (2015).

Translations

• Zoo World, Julia Lindemalm (Pasadena Studio 2018), translated from Swedish to English.

• Medicinfolket (We came so far for shelter), Saskia Gullstrand & Ylva Oknelid (Dendrolagus 2018), translated from Swedish to English.