Jonathan Bate

Sir Jonathan Bate is the author of twenty books, including prizewinning biographies of William Wordsworth, Ted Hughes, and John Clare. Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University and a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford, where he was formerly provost of Worcester College, he is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading Shakespeare scholars as well as a pioneer of ecological approaches to literature and culture. He has written extensively on classical antiquity, studied art history as a graduate student at Harvard, and became well versed in material culture and global history as the consultant curator for Shakespeare: Staging the World, the British Museum’s flagship exhibition during the London 2012 Olympics. He divides his time between Arizona and the UK and is a keen gardener himself.