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 Daniel Karlin FBA

19th and 20th-century British and American literature (Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling); the work of Marcel Proust; poetry and popular song, especially the work of Bob Dylan

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Professor Antoine Compagnon FBA

French Renaissance prose; 19th and 20th-century French literature and culture; history of criticism; theory of literature

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Professor Patricia Waugh FBA

Modern literary studies and intellectual history, with specific interests in the modern and contemporary novel; literature, science and medicine; cultural theory and modernist aesthetics

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