Dr Gregory Tate
Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 2651
- 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 58³Ô¹Ï 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
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Tate, G. P., 3 Feb 2026, (Accepted/In press) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Tate, G., 2026, (In preparation) Thomas Hardy, Poet: Centenary Essays. Shires, L. & Mallett, P. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillian, (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Tate, G. (Editor) & Koehler, K. (Editor), 20 May 2026, (Accepted/In press) Liverpool University Press. (Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century)
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
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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
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Open access
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
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Open access
Tate, G. P., 15 Sept 2025, In: Configurations. 33 (2025), 3, p. 255-286 32 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
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
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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
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Tate, G. (Editor), 13 Nov 2025, (In preparation) Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford handbooks)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Tate, G. (Editor) & Alfano, V. (Editor), 2028, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. (Longman annotated English poets)
Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition