Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA

English Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1999
Honours
CBE FRSL
Subjects
Literature

Summary

Jonathan Bate has wide ranging research interests in Shakespeare, Romanticism, theatre history, the contribution of poetry to thinking about the wellbeing of both the human mind and the natural environment, and many other aspects of literary history.

Current post

Senior Research Fellow, Worcester College, University of Oxford; Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities, Arizona State University

Past appointments

Worcester College University of Oxford Provost

2011 - 2019

University of Warwick Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick

2003 - 2011

University of Liverpool Leverhulme Research Professor, University of Liverpool

1999 - 2003

University of Liverpool King Alfred Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool

1991 - 2003

Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge Fellow

1985 - 1990

Publications

The Genius of Shakespeare

Jonathan Bate - Published in 2016 by Picador

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

Jonathan Bate - Published in 2015 by William Collins

Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare 2009

Jonathan Bate - Published in 2009 by Random House

The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works 2007

Ed. Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen - Published in 2007 by Red Globe Press

John Clare: A Biography

Jonathan Bate - Published in 2004 by Picador

The Song of the Earth 2000

Jonathan Bate - Published in 2002 by Harvard University Press

Shakespeare and Ovid

Jonathan Bate - Published in 1994 by Oxford University Press

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Professor Susanne Kord FBA

German literature (18th/19th centuries); reception and history of women’s literature; literary anonymity and pseudonyms; cultural history of antisemitism; crime genres (literature and film); genre film and philosophy

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Professor Felix Driver FBA

Historical geography of British empire & exploration, eighteenth to twentieth centuries; histories of collecting, visual culture & geographical knowledge

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Professor Donna Haraway FBA

Science and technology studies; multispecies studies; anti-racist and decolonial feminist theory; intersections of natural and social sciences; reproductive and environmental justice; inter-relations of biology, art, and politics; storytelling in knowledge practices

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