Robert Eaglestone

Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London

[Amy Forrester @amymayforrester]

I’m SO glad @AQAEnglish have done this. It really needed saying, sadly.

[Jessie Ricketts, moving to @rickettslara.bsky @ricketts_lara]

And I did manage to get a pic! So thrilled to see Reading being foregrounded by the 2026 Year of Reading @bphillipsonMP @Literacy_Trust @educationgovuk @readingagency

[Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman]

English A Level & IB teachers, in the UK and abroad, please tell your students about this competition, with judge @BobEaglestone The deadline is 21st May. Surprising though it may seem, they can't win if they don't enter! https://t.co/qklOU1qCf1

[Robert Eaglestone @BobEaglestone]

@LawrenceEFoley @BarbaraBleiman @RealGeoffBarton @tes I’d be keen to hear what ‘degrees of rightness’ actually means. I agree there are disciplinary ways of thinking, interpreting and doing things (which can be taught), but I’m not sure what role ‘correctness’ plays in them (beyond the drive for assessment).

[Robert Eaglestone @BobEaglestone]

@RealGeoffBarton @BarbaraBleiman @tes [sorry, to be clear, serious question,not doing silly time wasting twitter baiting. The question of ‘correctness of textual interpretation’ is about 100 years old in English as a subject (ie only slightly younger than the subject) + of course ancient in philosophy/hermeneutics]

[Robert Eaglestone @BobEaglestone]

@LawrenceEFoley @RealGeoffBarton @BarbaraBleiman @tes Er. English still the most popular arts and humanities subject so “people aren’t studying it anymore” is a little… rushed maybe? Plus (maybe not on social media, too compressed) I’d be really keen to hear the reasoning behind your position.

[Robert Eaglestone @BobEaglestone]

@jdurran @Trivium21c https://t.co/PNS4OUzeQA.... Flip down to paragraph 1.4 for the core - this is for undergraduate students of English but it works (to scale) for all students (because ‘expert’ and ‘novice’ don’t work as categories in English).

[Robert Eaglestone @BobEaglestone]

@BarbaraBleiman @CinDee11234 How do they teach people how to collaborate? How do they, et, play team sports?

[Robert Eaglestone @BobEaglestone]

Folks, I’ve had a lovely time here (+even met my wife @Poppy_Corbett on it). It’s been great for connecting with researchers, English teachers + others. But, you know, Nazi salutes + all that. So: not going this second, but in a few days when I’ve had a chance to download data.

[Department of English at Royal Holloway @RHULEnglish]

Next month @BobEaglestone and @HarveyWiltshire will be heading to Tallinn University to speak about their contributions to the @RoutledgeLit Companion to Literature and Crisis [https://t.co/OcWxRrgWuj]

[University English @UnivEnglish]

@BobEaglestone @_BenWright_ @EnglishAssoc Excellent statement from @_BenWright_ in today's Telegraph about why English is so crucial to our collective futures #EnglishCreates

[Robert Eaglestone @BobEaglestone]

@_BenWright_ hi, great piece about English Literature today - I’m an English prof + very involved with helping the subject make a case for itself with @EnglishAssoc + @UnivEnglish. Would be great to chat, lots to discuss, if you follow me I’ll DM?

[University English @UnivEnglish]

English researchers also contribute significantly to the economy. CCCU's English dept is the victim of the deeply skewed HE 'market' : young people flock to other depts which are bulging at the seams with English students, while this excellent dept is allowed to sink

[University English @UnivEnglish]

Check the stats before you dismiss this vital subject that trains its students in the essentials: communication skills, critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. Its great strength is that it doesn't lead straight to one career - it leads to many.

[University English @UnivEnglish]

and salaries for English grads are some of the fastest-rising in the country, 4th to be precise. English grads are CEOs, work in finance, the civil service, business, as well as in the creative, cultural, education, and heritage sectors.

[University English @UnivEnglish]

The data relating to careers for English graduates tell a very different story to the comments generated by the story. Rates of graduate employment for Arts, Humanities, and Social sciences students are within 1% of Science grads,

[University English @UnivEnglish]

In case @telegraph readers are interested, this is a response to the story re @CanterbruyCCUni's decision to close its excellent English dept.

[RHUL Holocaust Research Institute @RHUL_HRI]

Join Dr Becky Jinks next Monday (18 November 2024) as she shares her experience of curating the ground-breaking @hgrp_org exhibition @wienerlibrary: ‘Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the Stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women’.

https://t.co/pb2xRvkuUB

[Robert Eaglestone @BobEaglestone]

@martin_eve That is a terrible article