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Dr Andrew Tate
Senior Lecturer in English Literature
Degree: BA, MA, PhD (Lancaster)
Current Teaching
Undergraduate: American Literature to 1900; American Literature from 1900; From Decadence to Modernism, 1890-1945
Postgraduate: Romance and Realism: the Evolution of Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Research Interests
Research interests: literature and theology; postmodern fiction, theory and spirituality; Douglas Coupland;nineteenth-century religious writing, particularly with reference to Evangelicalism; John Ruskin.
Current projects:my monongraph on contemporary fiction and Christianity will be published by Continuum in January 2008; Douglas Coupland, the first study of the Canadian novelist, is out nowwith Manchester University Press.
Potential Doctoral Proposals
I welcome proposals on contemporary fiction (British and American); literature and theology; Douglas Coupland; nineteenth-century religion.
Career details
BA, MA, PhD, Lancaster
Convenor of MA Programmes in English (Contemporary Literary Studies; Literary and Cultural Studies; Romantic and Victorian Literature; English Literary Research)
Convenor of American Literature to 1900
Admissions Officer (Lent term)
UndergraduateTeaching: From Decadence to Modernism, 1890-1945; American Literature to 1900; American Literature from 1900
Postgraduate Teaching: Contemporary American Fiction; Ruskin and Religion; The Brantwood Module: Understanding and Interpreting Ruskin's Experimental Landscape
Current doctoral students: Reuben Welsh (Haruki Murakami), Alex Paknadel (DouglasCoupland and JGBallard), George Murgatroyd (the Harlem Renaissance)
Previous doctoral student: Claire Wildsmith, John Ruskin (graduated 2003)
I am interested in supervising research on Ruskin; nineteenth-century religious thought and its relationship with literature; contemporary fiction and spirituality.
Recent publications include:
Book: Douglas Coupland (Contemporary American and Canadian Writers) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007)
Editor ofVictorian Life Writing:Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 28. 1(2006)
'"So, here, be well again": the human/divine body of Jesus Jim Crace's Quarantine ', Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in , ed. by Jonathan Taylor and Andrew Dix (Brighton: Sussex Press, 2006), pp. 141-56.
'Postmodernism', The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture, ed. by John Sawyer (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 515-33.
'"I am your witness": Douglas Coupland at the end of the world', The Word in the word: Biblical Religion and the Novel, ed. by Mark Knight and Thomas Woodman(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 153-66.
'"I was guilty": Interpretation as heresy in John Updike's Roger's Version ', The Glass 16 (2004), pp. 15-30.
'"He himself with His Human Air": Browning writes "the Body of Christ"', Nineteenth-Century Contexts , 25.1(2003), pp. 39-43.
'"Now - here is my secret": Ritual and Epiphany in Douglas Coupland's Fiction', Literature and Theology , 16.3 (OUP, 2002), pp. 326-338.
'Evangelical Certainty: Charles Spurgeon's "Calls to the Unconverted"', Reinventing Christianity, ed. by Linda Woodhead (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), pp. 27-36.
'"Archangel Veronese": Ruskin as Protestant Spectator', Ruskin's Artists: Studies in the Victorian Visual Economy, ed. by Robert Hewison (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), pp. 131-45.
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Associated Keywords: American literature, Countercultures and spirituality, English, Literary and cultural theory, Postmodernism, Spirituality, Spirituality and ethics, The novel, Theology, Victorian culture
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Tel: +44 (0)1524 592223
Room: County, B100
Office Hour: Tues 11-12 and 2-3
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