Robert Eaglestone#
| Membership Number: | 6350 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/robert-eaglestone(fb218d7c-da01-4aa8-84e0-09b5c5aec566).html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5664-1366 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London
- 1997 Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in Twentieth Century Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London
Fields of Scholarship
- Literary theory
- Holocaust and genocide studies
- Trauma and literature
- European philosophy
- Contemporary British and American literature
- Philosophy of history
- Pedagogy in the humanities
- Contemporary European philosophy: Heidegger, Arendt, Levinas, Derrida
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Elected Fellow of the English Association
- 2014 National Teaching Fellow
- 2009 Senior Fellow at The Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts
