Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Deputy Director of the Holocaust Research Centre there.  He is the author of four books including Ethical Criticism (1997), Doing English (3rd ed. 2009), The Holocaust and the Postmodern (2004) and the editor or co-editor of four books including Derrida’s Legacies (2007) and J.M. Coetzee in Context and Theory (2009). He has published articles on several contemporary philosophers and writers and on a range of issues in philosophy, literary theory and historiography. His work has been translated into five languages. He is the Series Editor of Routledge Critical Thinkers