Dr. Melinda Phillips
Associate Professor and HSSC Chair

Office:   S227
Phone:  (248) 204-3520
E-mail:   weinstein@ltu.edu

Office hours by appointment.

Melinda Phillips is from Lumberton, NC.  She received her B.A. in English from Boston University in 1987 and her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1998.  She joined the Lawrence Technological University Humanities faculty in 2000, earning tenure and a promotion to Associate Professor in 2006.  She is the 2008-2009 Chair of the Humanities, Social Sciences and Communication Department. Dr. Phillips is an active research scholar in the fields of poetry and poetics, English literature, and World mythology. She is a founding member of the Association for the Study of Esotericism based at Michigan State University and is editor of the ASE book series Esotericism, Art and Imagination (2008) and the forthcoming, Esotericism, Religion and Nature (2010).  She has published articles on 20^th Century Philosopher Norman O. Brown and the Classical tragedian Euripides.  She is also a poet, novelist, and documentary filmmaker.