乔纳森·贝特

乔纳森·贝特（英语：Sir Andrew Jonathan Bate，1958年6月26日—）是一位英国学者、传记作家和评论家，2011至2019年任牛津大学伍斯特学院教务长，2004年获詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖传记奖，主要作品有入选牛津通识读本的《英格兰文学》（English Literature）等。

Sir Andrew Jonathan Bate (born 26 June 1958) is a British academic, biographer, literary critic, broadcaster, and scholar, known for his work on Shakespeare, Romanticism, and ecocriticism. He is currently Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities and Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, where he served as Provost from 2011 to 2019.

From 2017 to 2019 he was also Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College in London. Bate was knighted in 2015 for services to literary scholarship and higher education. He has authored major biographies of the poets John Clare, Ted Hughes, and William Wordsworth, as well as influential works on Shakespeare. He has written and presented extensively for BBC radio, and wrote the one-man play Being Shakespeare for actor Simon Callow.

Bate is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature. He is married to author Paula Byrne.

Academic and theatrical career

Bate was educated at Sevenoaks School, at the time when it was a selective Kent County Council funded grammar school, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he was the inaugural T. R. Henn Scholar and a winner of the University Charles Oldham Shakespeare Scholarship. After graduating with a top double first-class degree, he spent a year as a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University before returning to Cambridge to complete a PhD degree on Shakespeare and the Romantic imagination, supervised by Richard Luckett. Early in his career, he held a research fellowship at St Catharine's and then a joint college lectureship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Girton College, but struggled to secure a permanent post at Cambridge – he later said he felt "essentially exiled" after being passed over five times. In 1990, aged only 32, he was appointed to the position of King Alfred Professor of English Literature at Liverpool University, a post held by a succession of distinguished Shakespeare scholars including A. C. Bradley, Kenneth Muir, and Philip Edwards – a move he described as "the best decision of my life". He taught at Liverpool from 1991 to 2003, then became Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at Warwick, where he led a collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and won major funding to launch the CAPITAL Centre ("Creativity and Performance in Teaching and Learning"), bringing rehearsal room techniques to the classroom.

In 2011, Bate was elected Provost of Worcester College, Oxford. During his tenure at Worcester, he led a major fundraising campaign and oversaw construction of the college's Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, which was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize for architecture. Bate has held visiting posts at Yale University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Huntington Library and Folger Shakespeare Library, and served on the board of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Council of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.