BA, Royal Holloway, University of London
MA and PhD, Harvard University
Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
BA, Royal Holloway, University of London
MA and PhD, Harvard University
Professor Phillip John Usher researches Comparative and French literature. He is especially known for his work on premodernity’s relationship to contemporary ecotheory.
Editorial Board, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), 2019-present.
Discipline Representative, Renaissance Society of America (RSA), 2018-2021.
Member, then Chair, LLC French 16th-Century Literature, Modern Languages Association (MLA), 2015-2018.
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Ryskamp Fellowship, 2013-14.