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 Aleida Assmann FBA

English and American literature; cultural anthropology; media history of writing and reading; individual, collective and cultural memory, with special emphasis on Holocaust, trauma and the construction of national narratives

Aleida Assmann FBA

Professor William Rowe FBA

Modern & contemporary poetry in Britain, America & Latin America; modern Latin America literature & cultural history, expeciallly Peru

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Professor Peggy Kamuf FBA

Contemporary French philosophy, especially the work of Jacques Derrida. Translation theory and translations of many works from French, by Derrida but also by Hélène Cixous

Peggy Kamuf FBA

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