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Susan Phillips

Susan Phillips

· Professor of English

Northwestern University · English

Active 1947–2026

h-index37
Citations4.8k
Papers15950 last 5y
Funding$10.1M1 active

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Susie Phillips is a Professor of English at Northwestern University with a focus on medieval and Early Modern literature and culture. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and teaches courses on late medieval and Early Modern drama, poetry, and culture, including Shakespeare and Chaucer. Her scholarship emphasizes the materiality of the book—how texts were produced, published, circulated, and read. Her first book, 'Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England,' explores the role of 'idle talk' in late medieval England, arguing that gossip's seemingly trivial words are transformative, blurring boundaries between people, discourses, genres, practices, and words. Her upcoming book, 'Learning to Talk Shop: Mercantile Mischief and Popular Pedagogy in Premodern England,' examines phrasebooks and conversation guides from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, revealing how language learning shifted from formal education to practical, mercantile contexts, offering lessons in bargaining, insults, and social strategies. Professor Phillips has been recognized with multiple fellowships from the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the Weinberg College of Arts and Science Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Alumnae of Northwestern Teaching Professorship, the university's highest teaching honor. Her research interests include drama and performance, medieval literature, the history of the book, multilingual and comparative literatures, and Early…

Research topics

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  • Physical therapy
  • Medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Gerontology
  • Nursing

Selected publications

Recent grants

Frequent coauthors

  • Russell E. Glasgow

    University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

    173 shared

  • Suzanne Heurtin‐Roberts

    170 shared

  • Alex H. Krist

    168 shared

  • Marcia G. Ory

    Texas A&M University

    168 shared

  • S. N. Sheinfeld-Gorin

    UCLA Health

    164 shared

  • Beth A. Glenn

    UCLA Health

    106 shared

  • Roy Sabo

    Virginia Commonwealth University

    102 shared

  • Mary C. White

    Murdoch Children's Research Institute

    101 shared

Education

  • Cancer Prevention Fellow, National Cancer Institute

    National Institutes of Health

    2014

  • MPH in Quantiative Methods, TH Chan School of Public Health

    Harvard University

    2012

  • PhD, Kinesiology and Community Health

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    2011

  • Bachelor of Science (BS), Kinesiology and Community Health

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    2005

Awards & honors

  • Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Fellowships (2009-…
  • Weinberg College of Arts and Science Award for Distinguished…
  • Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll (four times…
  • Alumnae of Northwestern Teaching Professorship (2014)

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