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 an AHRC/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 connections between literary style and debates about English grammar in Victorian culture.

Research areas

Greg Tate specialises in nineteenth-century literature. Particular research interests include Romantic and Victorian poetry; grammar and multilingualism 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 doctoral research in any of these areas.

PhD supervision

• Bethany Gilbert
• Laura Greene
• James Jackson
• Cameron MacKie

Selected publications

• Alice Meynell's brain waves

  Tate, G. P., 1 Apr 2025, Mind and embodiment in late Victorian literature. Thain, M. & Viragh, A. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 57-80 (Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures).

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

• Open access

  Literature, science, and the voice of the 1870s

  Tate, G. P., Jan 2025, Nineteenth-century literature in transition: the 1870s. Chapman, A. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 254-73 20 p. (Nineteenth-century literature in transition).

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

• Open access

  Mathilde Blind and Ludwig Mond: chemistry, industry, and waste in late-Victorian culture

  Tate, G. P., 15 Sept 2025, In: Configurations. 33 (2025), 3, p. 255-286 32 p.

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

• Open access

  Nineteenth-century literary languages: politics, aesthetics, and print culture

  Koehler, K. & Tate, G., 2 May 2025, In: 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. 37, p. 2-14

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

• Open access

  Nineteenth-Century literary languages

  Tate, G. P. (Editor) & Koehler, K. (Editor), 2 May 2025, In: 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. 37

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

• The grammar of style in Victorian literature

  Tate, G. P., 26 Mar 2025, (In preparation)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Hardy

  Tate, G. (Editor), 2025, (In preparation) Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The Poems of Thomas Hardy (3 volumes)

  Tate, G. (Editor) & Alfano, V. (Editor), 2025, (In preparation) Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. (Longman Annotated English Poets)

  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

• Chemistry

  Tate, G. P., 13 Dec 2024, (Accepted/In press) The Palgrave handbook of nineteenth-century literature and science. Gilbert, P. (ed.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillian

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

• 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

 

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