Robert Eaglestone (born 1968)[citation needed] 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.
[4][1] In 2014, Eaglestone was the recipient of a National Teaching Fellowship, among the highest awards for pedagogy at university level in the United Kingdom.
[2] 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.
[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".