Jonathan Bate
Sir Jonathan Bate | |
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Bate in 2019 | |
| Born | 26 June 1958 |
| Nationality | British |
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| Known for | Shakespeare, Romanticism, Ecocriticism |
| Spouse | Paula Byrne |
| Awards | Hawthornden Prize, James Tait Black Prize |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Sevenoaks School |
| Alma mater | St Catharine's College, Cambridge Harvard University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Trinity Hall, Cambridge University of Liverpool University of Warwick Worcester College, Oxford Arizona State University |
| Main interests | Shakespeare, Early Modern Britain, Romanticism, Ecocriticism, Biography |
Sir Andrew Jonathan Bate (born 26 June 1958) is a British academic, biographer, literary critic, broadcaster, and scholar, known for his work on Shakespeare, Romanticism, and ecocriticism. He is currently Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities and Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, where he served as Provost from 2011 to 2019.
From 2017 to 2019 he was also Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College in London. Bate was knighted in 2015 for services to literary scholarship and higher education. He has authored major biographies of the poets John Clare, Ted Hughes, and William Wordsworth, as well as influential works on Shakespeare. He has written and presented extensively for BBC radio, and wrote the one-man play Being Shakespeare for actor Simon Callow.
Bate is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature. He is married to author Paula Byrne.