Philip Mosley is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University.  He has been an Associate Editor of Comparative Literature Studies and has served on the board of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. 

He has written a number of books on literature and on cinema including Anthracite! (2006), an anthology of Pennsylvania coal region plays. Other book publications include a translation of François Jacqmin’s Book of the Snow (2010), shortlisted for the international Griffin Poetry Prize; The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers: Responsible Realism (2013); and Resuming Maurice and Other Essays on Writers and Celebrity (2019).  He was awarded the 2008 Literary Translation Prize by the French Community of Belgium in recognition of his contribution to the dissemination of Belgian francophone literature.

A native of England, who immigrated to the USA in 1988, he attended Norwich School from 1957 to 1965, holds a BA (Honors) in English from the University of Leeds (1968), an MA in European Literature (1970) and a PhD in Comparative Literature (1976), both from the University of East Anglia.  In 2000 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Toulouse, France; in 2003-04 was Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; and in 2013 was Visiting Professor at the University College of Sint-Lukas, Brussels, Belgium.