Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1999
- Honours
- CBE FRSL
- Subjects
- Literature
- Website
- http://www.jonathanbate.com/
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
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
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Christopher Pinney FBA
Commercial print cultures of South Asia (especially chromolithography), visual culture of popular politics and religion; anthropological approaches to photography, history of photography in India; Hindu practice in rural central India
Professor Simon Shepherd FBA
The cultural history of theatre practices and dramatic forms in Britain, including theories of performance, from the early-modern to the present day; the theatrical avant-gardes of melodrama and modernism
Professor Kathy Hannah Eden FBA
History of rhetoric, especially ancient and early modern; its impact on the theory and practice of literature in Europe between the late 14th and 16th centuries
