Sir Jonathan Bate
Regents Professor, College of Global Futures
Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
Arizona State University
PO Box 871401
Tempe, AZ 85287-1401
Titles
- Distinguished Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
- Regents Professor, College of Global Futures
- Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
- Professor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
Biography
Sir Jonathan Bate joined ASU in 2019 as Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities in Global Futures, the School of Sustainability and the College of Liberal Arts. Coming from Oxford University, where he was Provost of Worcester College, Bate is an international leader in green thinking and applied humanities, with scholarly expertise in sustainability as well as in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, Romanticism, biography and life-writing, contemporary poetry, visual culture and theater history. He has written twenty books, many of which have won major prizes. In 2015, he became the youngest person ever to have been knighted for services to literary scholarship.
A renowned Shakespearean and eco-critic, Bate, has been a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; King Alfred Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool; Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick; Gresham Professor of Rhetoric in the City of London; and Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, where he has retained a Senior Research Fellowship. He has held visiting posts at Yale and UCLA. He is a Fellow and former Vice-President of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).
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Books
2019
Bate, J. 2019. How the Classics Made Shakespeare. Princeton University Press. Princeton, NJ. ISBN: 9780691161600.
2018
Bate, J. ed. 2018. Titus Andronicus: Revised Edition. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ISBN: 978-1350030916.
2015
Bate, J. 2015. Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life. Harper Collins. Great Britain. ISBN: 978-0062362438.
2013
Bate, J. 2013. Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition. Routledge, first published in 1991. ISBN: 978-0415856591.
2012
Bate, J. and D. Thorton. 2012. Shakespeare Staging the World. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0199915019.
2011
Bate, J. ed. 2011. The Public Value of the Humanities. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN: 978-1849660624.
2010
Bate, J. 2010. English Literature: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0199569267.
2009
Bate, J. 2009. Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare. Random House. ISBN: 978-1400062065.
2007
Bate, J. and E. Rasmussen. 2007. The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Red Globe Press. ISBN: 978-0230200951.
2003
Bate, J. 2003. John Clare: A Biography. Farrar, Staus and Giroux. ISBN: 978-0374179908.
2002
Bate, J. 2002. The Song of the Earth. Harvard University Press. ISBN: 978-0674008182.
1998
Bate, J. 1998. The Genius of Shakespeare. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0330371010.
1995
Bate, J. ed. 1995. The Arden Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus. Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare. ISBN: 978-1903436059.
1993
Bate, J. 1993. Shakespeare and Ovid. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198129547.
1989
Bate, J. 1989. Shakespearean Constitutions : Politics, Theater, Criticism, 1730-1830. Clarendon Press. ISBN: 9780198117490.
1986
Bate, J. 1986. Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198128489.
Book Chapters
2011
Bate, J. 2011. Introduction. Pp. 1-16 In: Bate, J. ed., The Public Value of the Humanities. ISBN: 978-1849660624.
Bate, J. 2011. The use and abuse of national history and the national poet. Pp. 56-67 In: Bate, J. ed., The Public Value of the Humanities. Bloomsbury Academinc. London. ISBN: 978-1849660624.