Jonathan Bate, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jonathan Bate

British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1958

Place of Birth: Kent, England, United Kingdom

Profession: biographer, university teacher, literary critic, novelist, literary historian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Sir [Andrew] Jonathan Bate, CBE, FBA, FRSL (born 26 June 1958), is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar.
He specialises in Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism.
He is Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities in a joint appointment of the College of Liberal Arts, the School of Sustainability and the Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College in the University of Oxford, where he holds the title of Professor of English Literature.
From 2017-2019 he was Gresham Professor of Rhetoric in the City of London.
Until September 2019 he was Provost of Worcester College, Oxford.
He was knighted in 2015 for services to literary scholarship and higher education.