Robert Eaglestone Explained

Robert Eaglestone
Birth Name:Robert Alexander Aldhelm Eaglestone
Thesis Title:Emmanuel Lévinas and the ethics of criticism
Thesis Url:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683154
Thesis Year:1995
Occupation:Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought
Workplaces:Royal Holloway, University of London
Known For:Literary theory, contemporary fiction, ethics
Notable Works:Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students, The Holocaust and the Postmodern
Spouse:Poppy Corbett
Awards:National Teaching Fellowship (2014)[1]

Robert Eaglestone (born 1968) is a British literary critic and theorist. He is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. He works on contemporary literature, literary theory and contemporary European philosophy, and on Holocaust and genocide studies. He edits the Routledge Critical Thinkers series.[2] [3]

In 2014, Eaglestone was the recipient of a National Teaching Fellowship, among the highest awards for pedagogy at university level in the United Kingdom.[4] He was elected a fellow of the English Association in 2017.[5] Eaglestone also serves as a media commentator[6] [7] and reviewer.[8]

Education

Eaglestone was educated at the University of Manchester where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree[3] and the University of Southampton where he was awarded a Master of Arts degree.[3] He was awarded a PhD by the University of Wales, Lampeter in 1995 for research on Emmanuel Levinas.[9]

Career and research

Eaglestone has published books on fiction and the relationship between literature, ethics and history, Ethical Criticism: Reading After Levinas (1997), The Holocaust and the Postmodern (2004),[10] The Broken Voice: Reading Post-Holocaust Literature (2017)[11] and articles on Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt and Jacques Derrida. He has also edited books on Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee and on contemporary literature.

Eaglestone is also the author of a textbook, Doing English: a Guide for Literature Students (4th ed 2017) (US edition: Studying Literature). He has written about textbooks for AdvanceHE.[12]

Eaglestone edited a book on Brexit, Brexit and Literature: Critical and Cultural Responses (2018), stating that Brexit is "a political, economic and administrative event: and it is a cultural one, too".[13] He coined the term 'cruel nostalgia'[14] in this context.

Eaglestone is concerned with the condition of literature studies: on this, he published Literature: Why it matters (2019) and a co-edited collection with Gail Marshall English: Shared Futures (2018).

Eaglestone is a commentator in the national press on the study on literature[15] at school and in Higher Education.[16] In English and its teachers: a history of Policy, Pedagogy and Practice, Simon Gibbons writes that "Eaglestone was not simply an ivory-towered academic seeking to shore up his own position - he had consistently demonstrated his commitment to effective teaching in secondary schools".[17]

Personal life

Eaglestone is married to Poppy Corbett and lives in Streatham, London. He has two children from his first marriage.

Published books

His publications include:

As editor and co-editor

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Robert Eaglestone | Advance HE. www.advance-he.ac.uk.
  2. Web site: Renfrew . Alastair . Critical Thinkers (Book Series) . Routledge . 2014-02-17.
  3. Web site: Professor Robert Eaglestone.
  4. Web site: National Teaching Fellows announced. 2014-06-12. 2015-12-31. Times Higher Education. TLS Group. Grove. Jack.
  5. Web site: English Association Fellows . Leicester University English Association . 27 October 2019.
  6. Web site: In Our Time - Hannah Arendt . BBC Radio 4 . 27 October 2019.
  7. Web site: Great Lives - Elie Wiesel . BBC Radio 4 . 27 October 2019.
  8. Web site: Author Robert Eaglestone . Times Higher Education . 27 October 2019.
  9. PhD. University of Wales Lampeter. Emmanuel Lévinas and the ethics of criticism. Robert Alexander Aldhelm. Eaglestone. 1995. . discover.library.wales. 669700018.
  10. Web site: The Holocaust and the Postmodern . University Press Scholarship Online . 27 October 2019.
  11. Web site: The Broken Voice: Reading Post Holocaust Literature . University Press Scholarship Online . 27 October 2019.
  12. Web site: Textbook Cinderellas: how metacognition takes a worn format to the ball . AdvanceHE . 27 October 2019.
  13. Web site: Brexit and Literature: Critical and Cultural Responses . Routledge . 27 October 2019.
  14. Web site: Brexit and Literature: a year from Article 50 . Backdoor Broadcasting Company - Academic Podcasts . 27 October 2019.
  15. News: English A-level suffers collapse in student numbers as teachers blame tougher GCSEs . 27 October 2019 . 14 August 2019.
  16. News: Fernando Gil Díaz . English: why the discipline may not be 'too big to fail' . . 2013-10-31 . 2014-02-17.
  17. Book: Simon Gibbons, English and its teachers: a history of Policy, Pedagogy and Practice . 2017 . Routledge . London . 9781138948938 . 119 . 27 October 2019.
  18. The Holocaust and the Postmodern (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Japanese translation 2013.

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