Philipp Schweighauser is a Swiss literary scholar and professor of North American and General Literature at the University of Basel.

Schweighauser studied English and German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Basel, where he also received his doctorate in 2003, for a thesis that introduced the notion of 'literary acoustics': The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics.

[2] In 2009, he was appointed Assistant Professor (with tenure track) of North American and General Literature at the University of Basel.

[4] From 2012 to 2020, Schweighauser served as President of the Swiss Association for North American Studies.

[citation needed] In 2022, he published his third book Boasian Verse: The Poetic and Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, dealing with the poetry and anthropological work of the three titular individuals.