Robert Eaglestone (editor) - Brexit and Literature: Critical and Cultural Responses

Robert Eaglestone

Lyndsey Stonebridge

Kristian Shaw

Petra Rau

Sara Upstone

Anne Varty

Bryan Cheyette

Ankhi Mukherjee

Anshuman A. Mondal

Robert Eaglestone

Michael Gardiner

J.A. Smith

Martin Murray

Gabriel Josipovici

Eva Aldea

Ann-Marie Einhaus

Simon Glendinning

Thomas Docherty

George Szirtes

Eva Aldea is a Polish-Romanian Swede based in London. She is a lecturer and writer, teaching literature and critical theory for the University of London, and has just finished her first novel. She enjoys interdisciplinary work and has spoken on nomadism and Europe at the LSEs Forum for European Philosophy and published on the topic on openDemocracy.net. She is author of Magical Realism and Gilles Deleuze: The Indiscernibility of Difference in Postcolonial Literature (Continuum 2010). Her first work of fiction to be published is featured in the Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Three (Epigram 2017).

Bryan Cheyette is Chair in Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Reading and a Fellow of the English Association. He has authored or edited ten books, most recently Diasporas of the Mind (Yale UP, 2013), which was a 2013 Times Higher Book of the Year, and, as co-editor, a definitive history of the post-war novel (Oxford UP, 2016). He is also a Series Editor for Bloomsbury (New Horizons in Contemporary Writing) and has published more than sixty chapters in books from T. S. Eliot to Bob Dylan and from Schindlers List to Muriel Spark. He has lectured widely throughout the United States and Europe and has held visiting positions at Dartmouth College, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds fellowships at the universities of Leeds, Southampton and Birkbeck College, London. He reviews fiction for several British newspapers and has published nearly one hundred essays on film, theatre and fiction for the Times Literary Supplement. He is currently working on a short book on the Ghetto for Oxford University Press.

Thomas Docherty studied in Glasgow, Paris and Oxford. He graduated with his MA in English and French language and literature from Glasgow, where he also studied mathematics and philosophy. He then took a DPhil and MA in Oxford. After five years teaching in Oxford, he moved to University College Dublin and then on to Trinity College Dublin, where he held the Chair of English (1867) sometimes called the Dowden Chair, and one of the earliest Chairs of English in the world between 199095. He was then elected as Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. In 1995, he returned to the UK, taking the Chair of English and Directorship of Research in the University of Kent. He moved to Warwick in 2004, where he headed the department until 2009 before again becoming Director of Research until 2013. Under his leadership as Director of Research, Warwick English was rated as the top department in the UK in the Research Excellence Framework. In 2016, he was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Kent in recognition of his academic achievements and commitment to higher education. He is the author of seventeen books, including, most recently: Complicity; Universities at War; Confessions; For the University. Two new books Literature and Capital and The New Treason of the Intellectuals will both appear in 2018, as will Mood, a volume of essays co-edited with Birgit Breidenbach. Another new book, Political English, will also appear shortly.

Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. He works on contemporary literature and literary theory, contemporary philosophy and on Holocaust and Genocide studies. He is the author of six books, including Ethical Criticism: Reading after Levinas (1997), The Holocaust and the Postmodern (2004), The Broken Voice (2017) and Doing English (4th edition 2017) and the editor or co-editor of seven more including Derridas Legacies (2008) and The Future of Trauma Theory (2013). In 2014 he won a National Teaching Fellowship.

Ann-Marie Einhaus is Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Her research centres on the literary and cultural legacy of the First World War, particularly in the medium of the short story, and her monograph,