Professor Terence Eagleton FBA

English Language and Literature Critical and Cultural Theory - English Language and Literature Literature in relation to other Arts Critical and Cultural Theory - Modern Languages Aesthetics Irish Literature in English

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2003
Subjects: Literature
Sections: Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830
Website: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/english/profiles/Terry-Eagleton

Current post

Distinguished Professor of English Literature, Lancaster University; Adjunct Professor of Cultural Theory, University of Ireland, Galway; Professor of English Literature, The University of Notre Dame, USA

Past appointments

University of Oxford Thomas Warton Chair of English

1970 -

University of Manchester Professor of Cultural Theory

1970 -

University of Manchester Professor of English

1970 -

University of Manchester John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature, University of Manchester

1970 -

Lancaster University Distinguished Professor of English Literature

1970 -

University of Manchester Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester

1970 -

Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge

1970 -

Lancaster University

1970 -

Publications

Literary Theory: An Introduction 1983

Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic 2003

Holy Terror 2005

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Professor Susan Harrow FBA

French literature and culture from the later nineteenth century to the present; modernism(s) and the avant-garde; textual/visual studies; modern French poetry, especially Apollinaire; Zola and Naturalism studies; comparative epistolarity studies

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Professor Terence Eagleton FBA

Current post

Distinguished Professor of English Literature, Lancaster University; Adjunct Professor of Cultural Theory, University of Ireland, Galway; Professor of English Literature, The University of Notre Dame, USA

Past appointments

University of Oxford Thomas Warton Chair of English

University of Manchester Professor of Cultural Theory

University of Manchester Professor of English

University of Manchester John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature, University of Manchester

Lancaster University Distinguished Professor of English Literature

University of Manchester Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester