Robert Eaglestone

I’m Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, and I’ve published widely on contemporary literature, European philosophy and on Holocaust and Genocide studies. I also write for non-academic audiences, and have spoken at many literary festivals and public events.

My most recent books are: The Broken Voice: Reading Post-Holocaust Literature (Oxford UP, 2017), Literature: Why it matters (Polity, 2019) and Truth and Wonder: a literary introduction to Plato and Aristotle (2022) and, as editor or co-editor, Brexit and Literature (London: Routledge, 2018), English: Shared Futures (English Association Essays and Studies: Boydell and Brewer, 2018) and The Routledge Companion to Twenty First Century Literary Fiction (Routledge, 2019).

I’ve also written a free-access policy pamphlet ‘Powerful knowledge’, ‘cultural literacy’ and the study of literature in schools (Oxford: Wiley, 2021) for the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.