Noëlle Phillips
About
Before coming to 51Ç鱨վ in 2015, I taught various introductory and upper-level courses at SFU and UBC and I completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies. I'm an Honorary Affiliate Instructor at UBC and a regular writer for the BC Ale Trail Blog and The Growler craft beer magazine. I am also a provisional judge under the Beer Judge Certification Program and I've passed the first level of the Cicerone program (it's like a beer sommelier!).
Education and credentials
- PhD, British Columbia
- BA, Victoria
Research summary
My primary research area is late medieval book culture and Middle English literature, particularly William Langland's poem Piers Plowman, Chaucer, and the fifteenth-century political adaptations of John Lydgate's poetry. However, I am also very interested in "medievalisms" – how later readers, including modern ones, understand, re-imagine, and use the medieval period. In my teaching, I enjoy using our understanding or interpretation of the past to illuminate our experience of the present. This interest in medievalism led me to study the history of beer brewing and the use of medieval images in modern beer marketing. I have now written and co-edited two academic books on craft beer marketing and medieval beer history, and my newest book (for a public audience) is about the history of craft beer in Vancouver.