Terry Eagleton

Widely regarded as Britain's most influential living literary critic and theorist, Dr Eagleton currently serves as Distinguished Prof. of English Literature at the University of Lancaster and as Visiting Prof. at the Nat'l University of Ireland, Galway. He was Thomas Warton Prof. of English Literature at the University of Oxford ('92-01) and John Edward Taylor Prof. of English Literature at the University of Manchester until '08. He returned to The University of Notre Dame in the Fall '09 semester as Distinguished Visitor in the English Department.

He's written over 40 books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction ('83); The Ideology of the Aesthetic ('90) and The Illusions of Postmodernism ('96).