Gregory Tate

Biography

Greg Tate is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature. He studied as an undergraduate at the University of Sheffield, before completing masters and doctoral degrees at Linacre College, University of Oxford. He completed his doctorate in 2009, and subsequently worked as a college lecturer at St Anne’s and Trinity Colleges, Oxford. He then taught at the University of Surrey as a Lecturer in English Literature, before joining the School of English at St Andrews in 2015. In 2013 Greg was named as a BBC New Generation Thinker, and in 2017-18 he holds a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.

Research Interest

Greg's research interests are in Victorian literature, and in nineteenth-century literature and culture more broadly. Particular research interests include Romantic and Victorian poetry; literature and science; literature and philosophy; nineteenth-century writing about psychology; the periodical press; and the links between literary form and gender in the nineteenth century. He welcomes applications from postgraduates interested in pursuing doctoral research in any of these areas. Greg's first monograph, The Poet's Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry 1830-1870 (OUP, 2012), examines the ways in which Victorian poets borrowed from, disagreed with, and helped to shape the developing scientific discipline of psychology in the mid-nineteenth century. He has also published essays on Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Jane Austen, John Keats, and science in the nineteenth-century periodical press. He is currently writing his second monograph, Poetical Matter, which studies the exchange of methods, concepts, and language between poetry and the physical sciences in the nineteenth century. He is also editing a volume of the poetry and prose of Arthur Hugh Clough for OUP's 21st-Century Oxford Authors series.