Jonathan Bate

Professor Sir Andrew Jonathan Bate CBE FBA FRSL
Bate in 2019
Born	(1958-06-26) 26 June 1958 (age 66) Kent, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Occupations	Academic historian literary critic biographer broadcaster
Known for	Shakespeare, Romanticism, Ecocriticism
Spouse	Paula Byrne
Awards	Hawthornden Prize, James Tait Black Prize
Academic background
Education	Sevenoaks School
Alma mater	St Catharine's College, Cambridge Harvard University
Academic work
Institutions	Trinity Hall, Cambridge University of Liverpool University of Warwick Worcester College, Oxford Arizona State University
Main interests	Shakespeare, Early Modern Britain, Romanticism, Ecocriticism, Biography

Sir Andrew Jonathan Bate, CBE, FBA, FRSL (born 26 June 1958), is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, scholar, and occasional novelist, playwright and poet. He specializes in Shakespeare, Romanticism and ecocriticism. He is Regents Professor of Literature and Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities in a joint appointment in the Department of English in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Sustainability in the Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, where he holds the title of Professor of English Literature.^[1] Bate was Provost of Worcester College from 2011 to 2019.^[2] From 2017 to 2019 he was Gresham Professor of Rhetoric in the City of London. He was knighted in 2015 for services to literary scholarship and higher education. He is also Chair of the Hawthornden Foundation.