Dr Gregory Tate

Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2651

Email

gpt4@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 303

Location

Kennedy Hall

 

Biography

Greg Tate is a Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature. He studied as an undergraduate at the University of Sheffield, and as a postgraduate at Linacre College, University of Oxford. He completed his doctorate in 2009, and then worked as a college lecturer at St Anne’s and Trinity Colleges, Oxford. He then taught at the University of Surrey, before joining the School of English at St Andrews in 2015. In 2013 Greg was named as a BBC New Generation Thinker. In 2017-18 he was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow. And in 2022-23 he was the principal investigator on the AHRC-funded "Victorian Literary Languages" research network. He is the author of two monographs - The Poet's Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry (2012) and Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences: Poetical Matter (2020) - and the editor of a volume of the poetry and prose of Arthur Hugh Clough in Oxford University Press's 21st-Century Oxford Authors series. He has published articles on Jane Austen, Robert Browning, Humphry Davy, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, May Kendall, and science in the nineteenth-century periodical press. He is currently writing a book about the relations between prescriptive grammar and literary style in Victorian culture.

Research areas

Greg Tate specialises in nineteenth-century literature. Particular research interests include Romantic and Victorian poetry; grammar and linguistics in the nineteenth century; literature and science; literature and philosophy; literature and psychology; the periodical press; and the connections between literary form and gender in the nineteenth century. He welcomes applications from postgraduates interested in pursuing doctoral research in any of these areas.

PhD supervision

• Rachel Zimmerman
• Bethany Gilbert
• Laura Greene
• Cameron MacKie

Selected publications

• Alice Meynell's Brain Waves

  Tate, G. P., 21 Jun 2024, (Accepted/In press) Mind and Embodiment in Late Victorian Literature. Thain, M. & Viragh, A. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Nineteenth-Century Literary Languages

  Tate, G. P. (Editor) & Koehler, K. (Editor), 1 Oct 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. 37

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

• The poetry of Humphry Davy

  Tate, G. P. (Editor), Ruston, S. (Editor) & James, F. (Editor), 30 Jul 2024, (Accepted/In press) London: UCL Press. (Comparative literature and culture)

  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

• Literature, science, and the voice of the 1870s

  Tate, G. P., 28 Aug 2023, (Accepted/In press) Nineteenth-century literature in transition: the 1870s. Chapman, A. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (Nineteenth-century literature in transition).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access

  Superlative Clough

  Tate, G., 11 Apr 2022, In: Essays in Criticism. 72, 1, p. 25-52 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Thomas Hardy's pure English

  Tate, G., 16 Sept 2022, In: Victorian Literature and Culture. 50, 3, p. 521-547

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 21st-Century Oxford Authors: Arthur Hugh Clough

  Tate, G. P., 29 Sept 2020, Oxford University Press. (21st-Century Oxford Authors)

  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

• Open access

  Evolution, idealism, and individualism in May Kendall's comic verse

  Tate, G., 16 Mar 2020, In: English Literature in Transition 1880 - 1920. 63, 3, p. 429-451

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Nineteenth-century poetry and the physical sciences: poetical matter

  Tate, G., Jul 2020, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 271 p. (Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Arthur Hugh Clough's pedigree

  Tate, G. P., Jul 2019, In: Journal of Victorian Culture. 24, 3, p. 323-328

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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