Degrees Held
B.A., 1991, Columbia University
M.A., 1995, University of Chicago
Ph.D., 2002, University of Chicago
Academic Summary
Joshua Phillips received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago. He is currently at work on a book on intellectual property and aesthetics in early modern England and on a second project concerning early modern alienation in Europe. His research interests include Medieval and Renaissance European literature (including British), the history of the book, law and literature, and literary theory.
Courses Taught
3212 British Literature of the 16th Century
4232 Shakespeare's Tragedies
4235 Shakespeare's Comedies & Romances
7/8230 Chaucer
7/8233 Shakespeare's Comedies & Romances
Major Publications
- “Humanism,” The Book in the Age of Theater: 1550-1700, Exhibition Catalogue, ed. Larry Norman (University of Chicago Library Press, 2001).
- “Plays, Printing, and Publics,” The Book in the Age of Theater: 1550-1700, Exhibition Catalogue, ed. Larry Norman (University of Chicago Library Press, 2001).
- “Staking Claims to Utopia: Thomas More, Fiction, and Intellectual Property,” Material Culture and Cultural Materialism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Curtis Perry (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2001).
- "Th'Intertraffique of the Minde’: Publishing John Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essais.” Montaigne Studies, 11 (Autumn 1999) 209-232.
