Dr Gregory Tate

Dr Gregory Tate

Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2651
Email
gpt4@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
Room 303
Location
Kennedy Hall

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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 ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ 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 PoetryÌý(2012) andÌýNineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences: Poetical MatterÌý(2020) - and the editor of a volume of the poetry and prose of Arthur Hugh Clough in Oxford University Press'sÌý21st-Century Oxford AuthorsÌýseries. 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

  • BethanyÌýGilbert
  • LauraÌýGreene
  • CameronÌýMacKie

Selected publications

  • Tate, G. P., Apr 2025, 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

  • 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

  • Tate, G. P., 13 Jun 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Configurations. 34 (2026)

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

  • Open access
    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

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

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

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

    Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

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