Editing Terry Eagleton (section)

==Education and academia==
Eagleton was educated at [[Pendleton College|De La Salle College]], a Roman Catholic grammar school in [[Pendleton, Greater Manchester|Pendleton]], [[County Borough of Salford|Salford]].<ref name="Smith2013" /> In 1961, he went to read English at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], whence he graduated with first-class honours.<ref name=autogenerated3 /> He later described his undergraduate experience as a "waste of time".<ref name="Smith2013" /> In 1964, he moved to [[Jesus College, Cambridge]], where as a junior research fellow and doctoral student, he became the youngest fellow at the college since the 18th century.<ref name=autogenerated1/> He was supervised by [[Raymond Williams]].<ref name=autogenerated3 /> His thesis was on [[Edward Carpenter]] and was examined by [[E. P. Thompson|EP Thompson]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Eagleton |first=Terry |title=The task of the critic: Terry Eagleton in dialogue |last2=Beaumont |first2=Matthew |date=2009 |publisher=Verso |isbn=978-1-84467-339-1 |edition= |location=London |pages=75-76}}</ref> It was during this period that his socialist convictions began to take hold, and he edited a radical Catholic leftist periodical called ''[[Slant (journal)|Slant]]''.<ref name=autogenerated3 />

In 1969, he moved to the [[University of Oxford]] where he became a fellow and tutor of [[Wadham College, Oxford|Wadham College]] (1969–1989), [[Linacre College, Oxford|Linacre College]] (1989–1993) and [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's College]], becoming Thomas Warton Professor of English in 1992. At Wadham, Eagleton ran a well-known seminar on Marxist literary theory which, in the 1980s, metamorphosed into the radical pressure group [[Oxford English Limited]] and its journal ''[[News from Nowhere: Journal of the Oxford English Faculty Opposition]]'', to which he contributed several pieces.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}} In 2001, Eagleton left Oxford to become the [[John Edward Taylor]] Professor of English at the [[University of Manchester]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Smith |first1=James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9uKXR45GhkcC |title=Terry Eagleton |last2=Smith |first2=James Benjamin |date=2008-07-08 |publisher=Polity |isbn=978-0-7456-3609-2 |pages=8 |language=en |quote="The final break with Oxbridge came in 2001, with a move to the University of Manchester as the John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature, with Eagleton now dividing time between living in England and Ireland."}}</ref>