Biography

Greg Tate joined the School in September 2010, having previously taught at St Anne's College, Oxford and Trinity College, Oxford. His book, The Poet's Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry 1830-1870, will be published by Oxford University Press in November 2012. His current research project examines the differences between thinking and feeling, and the related differences between the sciences and the arts, as they are depicted in nineteenth-century literature.

Research Interests

• Literature and science from 1750 to the present
• Nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry
• Contemporary American fiction
• Literature and the French Revolution
• Detective fiction
• Holocaust literature
• Graphic novels
• American cinema

Research Collaborations

I am one of the investigators on the University of Surrey's 'Creativity Observatory' project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's Bridging the Gaps scheme. The interdisciplinary Creativity Observatory interviews scientists, social scientists, arts academics, and creative writers in order to examine how practitioners in different disciplines define creativity and understand the creative process.

Publications

The Poet's Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming November 2012)

See the entry for The Poet's Mind in the Oxford University Press catalogue

'Arthur Hallam's Fragments of Being', Tennyson Research Bulletin vol. 9, no. 5 (2011)

‘“My present Past”: Memory and Identity in the Poetry of George Eliot’, in Acts of Memory: The Victorians and Beyond, ed. Ryan Barnett and Serena Trowbridge (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)

‘“A fit person to be Poet Laureate”: Tennyson, In Memoriam, and the Laureateship’, Tennyson Research Bulletin vol. 9, no. 3 (2009)

Read '"A fit person to be Poet Laureate"' on Surrey Scholarship Online

‘Tennyson and the Embodied Mind’, Victorian Poetry vol. 47, no. 1 (2009)

‘George Eliot’s Poetry of the Soul’, George Eliot Review vol. 39 (2008)

Read 'George Eliot's Poetry of the Soul' on Surrey Scholarship Online

Teaching

I am Programme Director for the BA in English Literature. I teach lectures and seminars and act as module co-ordinator for two compulsory second-year modules: 'Constructing the Self I - Early Modern to Romantic Literature' and 'Constructing the Self II - Victorian to Modern Literature'. I also teach a third-year module on 'Imagination and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Poetry'.

Conferences and Online Journals

Co-organiser of a conference on 'Dickens and the Visual Imagination', to be hosted by the University of Surrey, Watts Gallery, and the Paul Mellon Centre (July 2012).

Co-organiser of ‘Tennyson’s Futures’, a two-day conference held at the University of Oxford and sponsored by Oxford University Press and the British Association for Victorian Studies (March 2009).

Co-founder of Victorian Network, a peer-reviewed online journal which publishes postgraduate research in the field of Victorian studies and which was set up with a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.