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

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Peter Brooks FBA

Comparative literature, mainly French & English; Stendhal, Balzac, Henry James; the novel and its analysis; psychoanalysis and literary study; law and literature; identity in modern culture

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Professor John Barrell FBA

English Language and Literature History of a specific country Britain in the 18th & 19th C. History of Art Theory of Painting Cultural Geography

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Professor Josephine McDonagh FBA

Josephine McDonagh is the author of several monographs and editor of volumes of essays on a range of interdisciplinary topics, with a focus on nineteenth-century British literature, particularly Britain’s global and imperial relations. Most recently she has interrogated the role of literature in settler colonisation, migration and emigration.

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