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 Paul Gilroy FBA

African American literature and culture; the cultural history of postcolonial societies; the sociology of ethnicity, race and racism in Britain

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Professor Patrick Wright FBA

'Heritage' and the power of tradition in British culture since 1890; the cultural dimensions of international relations since 1945; place and belonging in relation to globalisation

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Professor David Barnett FBA

Theory and practice of political theatre, particularly Bertolt Brecht’s; directing political theatre; theatre history (intersections of institutions, productions and practices); postdramatic theatre; theatricality; Heiner Müller; Fassbinder’s theatre

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