Jonathan Bate

Sir Jonathan Bate is Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University and a Senior Research Fellow in English Literature at Oxford University, where he was formerly Provost of Worcester College. The author of twenty books, several of which have won major prizes, he is a world-renowned expert on Shakespeare and the history of English and European Literature, especially the Romantic movement and contemporary poetry and fiction. He was the first to introduce ecological approaches to the arts and humanities into British scholarship and has also made significant contributions to discussions in the public sphere of the value of the humanities. A Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, he is the youngest person ever to have been knighted for services to literary scholarship.