Dr Gregory Tate
Lecturer in Victorian Literature
Director of Teaching
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 462651
- gpt4@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- Room 303
- Location
- Kennedy Hall
- Office hours
Biography
Greg Tate is a 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 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 was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow. 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 (2019). He has published essays on Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Jane Austen, John Keats, Humphry Davy, and science in the nineteenth-century periodical press. He is currently editing a volume of the poetry and prose of Arthur Hugh Clough for Oxford University Press's 21st-Century Oxford Authors series.
Research areas
Greg Tate specialises in nineteenth-century literature. Particular research interests include Romantic and Victorian poetry; English grammar in the nineteenth century; literature and science; literature and philosophy; nineteenth-century writing about 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
- Devin Jacobsen
Selected publications
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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. 429-451Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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
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Arthur Hugh Clough's pedigree
Tate, G. P., Jul 2019, In : Journal of Victorian Culture. 24, 3, p. 323-328Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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
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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, p. 101-114 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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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, p. 161-174 14 p. 11Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the making of a man of science
Tate, G., 2017, In : Annals of Science. 74, 4, p. 335-336 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Book/Film/Article review
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John Keats: Science and Sympathy
Tate, G. P., 18 Jun 2016, In : Lancet. 387, 10037, p. 2498-2499 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Comment/debate
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Keats, myth, and the science of sympathy
Tate, G. P., Jul 2016, In : Romanticism. 22, 2, p. 191-202 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Austen's literary alembic: Sanditon, medicine, and the science of the novel
Tate, G. P., 1 Dec 2015, In : Nineteenth-Century Literature. 70, 3, p. 336-362Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article