Dr Gregory Tate

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

  • Bethany Gilbert
  • Rachel Zimmerman
  • Roisin Neenan
  • Laura Greene

Selected publications

  • Literature, Science, and the Voice of the 1870s

     Tate, G. P., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1870s. Chapman, A. (ed.). Cambridge University Press

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • 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

  • Open access

    Humphry Davy and the problem of analogy

     Tate, G. P., 1 Jul 2019, In: Ambix: The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. 66, 2-3, p. 140-157 18 p.

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

  • Poetry and Science

     Tate, G. P., 18 May 2017, The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science. Holmes, J. & Ruston, S. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 101-114 14 p.

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

  • Researching Science and Periodicals: Satire and Scientific Jargon in Punch

     Tate, G. P., 26 Jun 2017, Researching the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Case Studies. Easley, A., King, A. & Morton, J. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 161-174 14 p. 11

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

 

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