Jonathan Bate
Sir Andrew Jonathan Bate,
CBE,
FBA,
FRSL (born 26 June 1958), is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, scholar, and occasional novelist, playwright and poet. He specializes in
Shakespeare,
Romanticism and
ecocriticism. He is Regents Professor of Literature and Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities in a joint appointment in the Department of English in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Sustainability in the Global Futures Laboratory at
Arizona State University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at
Worcester College, Oxford, where he holds the title of Professor of English Literature. Bate was
Provost of Worcester College from 2011 to 2019. From 2017 to 2019 he was
Gresham Professor of Rhetoric in the City of London. He was
knighted in 2015 for services to literary scholarship and higher education. He is also Chair of the Hawthornden Foundation.
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