Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton FBA (born 22 February 1943) is a prominent British literary theorist, critic and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University, Professor of Cultural Theory at the National University of Ireland and Distinguished Visiting Professor of English Literature at The University of Notre Dame.
Eagleton has published over forty books, but remains best known for Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), which has sold over 750,000 copies. The work elucidated the emerging literary theory of the period. He has also been a prominent critic of postmodernism, publishing works such as The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996).
Formerly the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford (1992–2001) and John Edward Taylor Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester (2001–2008), Eagleton has held visiting appointments at universities around the world including Cornell, Duke, Iowa, Melbourne, Trinity College in Dublin, and Yale.
Eagleton delivered Yale University's 2008 Terry Lectures and the 2010 Edinburgh Gifford Lecture entitled The God Debate. He gave the 2010 Richard Price Memorial Lecture at Newington Green Unitarian Church, speaking on "The New Atheism and the War on Terror". In 2009 he published a book which accompanied his lectures on religion, entitled Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate.
^ a b c d Prof Terry Eagleton profile, Debrett’s People of Today, FBA Profile
^ T. Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction (1991), pg. 131.
^ a b c d James Smith (2013). Terry Eagleton. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-7456-5795-0.
^ James Smith (2013). Terry Eagleton. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-7456-5795-0.
^ Vallely, Paul (13 October 2007). "Terry Eagleton: Class warrior". The Independent. ...the man who succeeded F R Leavis as Britain's most influential academic critic.
^ Professor John Sitter, Chairman of the English Department at the University of Notre Dame and Editor of The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth Century Poetry, has describes Eagleton as "someone widely regarded as the most influential contemporary literary critic and theorist in the English-speaking world" [1]
^ "Eagleton himself has also replaced Leavis as the best known and most influential academic critic in Britain." Duke Maskell, as cited by Nicholas Wroe [2]
^ "Terry Eagleton is arguably the most influential contemporary British literary critic and theorist." James Smith. Cited in the Introduction to Terry Eagleton: A Critical Introduction (Key Contemporary Thinkers) Polity Press, 2008.
^ Blakey, Marie (11 May 2009). "Terry Eagleton Returns to ND as Distinguished Visitor in English Department". College of Arts and Letters. University of Notre Dame.
^ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/a-theoretical-blow-for-democracy/160508.article
^ Departmental web page at Lancaster
^ "Professor Terry Eagleton". College of Humanities & Social Science. University of Edinburgh.
^ "Terry Eagleton to speak at Newington Green". Hackney Citizen. 29 August 2010. Retrieved 30 December 2011.Continue Reading »
