Edith Philips (November 3, 1892 – July 19, 1983) was an American writer and academic of French literature.

She served as the acting dean of women at Swarthmore and was later appointed the Susan W. Lippincott Professor of French in 1941.

Philips was the founding chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Swarthmore, serving in this position from 1949 to 1960.

[4] Philips was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1928 to study "the Quaker as a type in French literature, chiefly in the eighteenth century.

In 1930, Philips, then an assistant professor of Romance languages at Goucher, was conducting an "exhaustive study" on French emigration to the United States where she uncovered much on the life of Louis Girardin, the first head of the Maryland Academy of Science and friend of Thomas Jefferson.