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Natalie Philips is an Assistant Professor of English at Michigan State University, specializing in 18th-century literature, the history of mind, and cognitive approaches to narrative. She teaches interdisciplinary courses like 'Cognitive Science and the Literary History of Mind,' which integrates literary analysis with neuroscience and historical anatomical studies. Her research explores how attention and reading techniques influence brain activity, conducted in collaboration with Stanford University and analyzed at MSU’s Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab. She actively involves undergraduate students in her research, notably through the Honors College’s Professorial Assistantship program.
Phillips received the 2014 Distinguished Contributions to Honors Students Award for her mentorship and teaching excellence. Her work bridges literary studies with cognitive science, leveraging tools like fMRI and eye-tracking to study readers’ engagement with texts such as Jane Austen’s 'Mansfield Park.' She emphasizes interdisciplinary creativity and critical thinking in her students, who have contributed to her book Distraction: Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature.
