Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, UK, and has published widely on contemporary literature and literary theory, contemporary European philosophy and Holocaust and Genocide studies. He is the author of Doing English (fourth edition, 2017), editor of Brexit and Literature (2018) and co-editor, with Daniel O'Gorman, of The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction (2018).