Phillip joined the Alcuin Fellowship in 2016. He is Professor of Literature for the Great Texts Program in the Honors College at Baylor University. (He served as Director for the Great Texts Program 2012-2024.) He has published numerous books and articles, including Milton’s Scriptural Reasoning (Cambridge University Press) and The Lost Seeds of Learning: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric as Life-Giving Arts (Classical Academic Press). He is also a Co-PI (with Todd Buras) on multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities focused on helping educators to use the genre of the “disputed question” (disputatio) to address wisdom questions in teaching the humanities. He holds a BA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia as well as an MA and PhD in English Literature from the University of Ottawa (Canada). He is a Lifetime Member of the Milton Society of America.
