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Robert Eaglestone, Professor
of Contemporary Literature and
Thought Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary
Literature and Thought at
Royal Holloway, Email: r.eaglestone@rhul.ac.uk Department of English Royal Holloway, Egham, TW20 0EX 01784 434455 |
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Career |
I
joined the Department in 1997 having taught in literature and in philosophy
departments at several |
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Research Interests |
My main interests are in the contemporary, spanning literature (mainly fiction), philosophy
and history. I am deeply interested in issues of ethics, aesthetics and the philosophy
of history, and have spent some years been working through a series of
questions about the legacy of the Holocaust
and the Second Word War in
these fields. I have worked and published on a number of modern European and British,
European and American writers. I have also published extensively on Holocaust
testimony, fiction, historiography and poetry. I am strongly committed to interdisciplinary and
collaborative research work and have an interest in pedagogy. I am currently
completing a manuscript on the Holocaust and genocide in contemporary
literature and culture, and my volume of the Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Literary and Cultural Theory (Volume 2 1966 to
Present day). |
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Select Publications |
Books
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The
Holocaust and the Postmodern (
Japanese
translation, 2003.
Slovak translation, 2001; Turkish
Translation, 2002; Japanese Translation 2004.
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Co-editor, with Elleke Boehmer and Katy Iddiols J.M.
Coetzee in Context and Theory (
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Teaching |
I teach EN2324 Debates in
Contemporary Literary Theory; EN 3106 Literature and Philosophy; EN3510
Special Author Salman Rushdie and on PY1001 Basic Problems in Philosophy. In 2009/10 I will be teaching a new course on Literature, Atrocity and Genocide. I also teach on the
MA Literatures of Modernity, where I teach British and American contemporary
fiction and on the MA in Holocaust Studies, where I teach Representing the Holocaust in British and
American Literature and Post-Holocaust
Philosophy. I am Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. |
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Routledge Critical Thinkers |
I am series editor of Routledge Critical Thinkers. The series aims to provide a
comprehensive introduction or ‘first point of call’ for specific critical
thinkers and to provide crucial orientation for students and others to equip,
enable and encourage them to read the original works. Please feel free to
contact me with a suggestion for a subject or an author and if you feel you
might like to contribute to this series or would like more information,
please contact me. To date, there are 38 volumes in the series, including three second
editions, with more under contract: the series has sold over 140,000 copies
world-wide. Several books in the series have been translated into Korean and
Persian. |
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Other
Activities |
I
regularly speak at public events, most recently: ·
‘Understanding the Holocaust Today’: a major public event at the ·
LCASE Inside/out event:
‘Contemporary Attitudes to the Holocaust’ ·
Speaker at Hay Literary Festival, ‘How the light gets in’, ·
SPILL theatre festival, public salon on ‘Complexity’, Soho, ·
‘Learning Jargonese’ at Battle of Ideas ( I
am a Literary Advisor to the British Council; I am on the Executive committee
of the Forum for European Philosophy and am a consultant for the
Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency. |
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Supervision |
I have supervised 3 phds to successful completion: ·
Dr Iain Morland, ‘Ethics, narrative, medical science and intersex’
(2005) ·
Dr Nicole Gyulay, ‘Religion in the
Post-colonial novel’ (2006) ·
Dr Katy Iddiols ‘Language and violence in J. M. Coetzee’ (2009). I am currently the supervisor of four PhD students, working on:
contemporary British fiction and the pastoral; theories of Jewish identity;
the 9/11 novel; madness and contemporary fiction. I welcome applications from potential PhD students in any of the areas of my expertise. |
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