Christopher Phillips

Teaching interests: American and transatlantic literatures of the 18th and 19th centuries; literary history; history of the book and of reading; religion and literature; literary history; literature of the sea

Research interests: American and transatlantic literatures of the 18th and 19th centuries; literary history; history of the book and of reading; religion and literature; literary history; literature of the sea; the uses of epic in American literature and culture from colonial times to the Reconstruction; readers’ interactions with hymns; the study of US presidents as authors; the history of reading communities in the Easton Library Company in the early 19th century; cartography and literature; teaching of literature using digital audio assignments