The English Research Centre is proud to announce the University’s acquisition of the personal archives of prominent literary scholar, Terry Eagleton.
Professor Eagleton, who was born in Salford, has bequeathed an extensive collection of his writings and other material relating to his academic life from the early 1960s all the way to 2021. Eagleton, who is Distinguished Professor English Literature at Lancaster University, was educated at Salford’s De La Salle College before reading English at the University of Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge, he became the youngest fellow at Jesus College since the 18th century.
In 1969, he became a fellow and tutor at the University of Oxford and was made Thomas Warton Professor of English in 1992. He returned to the north west in 2001, when he became the John Edward Taylor Professor of English at the University of Manchester before joining Lancaster University in 2008. The University of Salford also gave Professor Eagleton an honorary degree in 1993.
His donated collection includes 10 boxes that were previously stored at his home and covers rare materials such as research notes, folders of unpublished plays and manuscripts, journals, posters and ephemera, books, cassette tapes, photos and various correspondence.
Read more about the archive here.