Dr Andrew Tate

PhD Supervision Interests

I welcome proposals on contemporary fiction (British and American); literature and theology; Douglas Coupland; nineteenth-century religion.

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; John Irving; John Updike; the New Atheism; nineteenth-century religious writing, particularly with reference to Evangelicalism; John Ruskin.

Current projects: I am writing a monograph on biblical narrative in twenty-first century cu

lture. Forthcoming articles include pieces on Charles Causley; John Ruskin; J G Ballard.

Career Details

BA, MA, PhD, Lancaster

I Convened MA Programmes in English (English Literary Studies and pathways in Contemporary Literary Studies; Literary and Cultural Studies; Romantic and Victorian Literature; Early Modern Studies) from 2007-2012

Undergraduate: Convenor of American Literature to 1900; Contemporary Literature (from 2013)

Undergraduate Teaching: Lecture contributions to From Decadence to Modernism, 1890-1945; American Literature to 1900; Victorian Literature; American Literature from 1900; The Theory and Practice of Criticism; Contemporary Literature

Specialist final year courses: Literature and the Visual Arts; Twenty-First Century Fiction

Postgraduate Teaching: Contemporary American Fiction; Ruskin and Religion; The Brantwood Module: Understanding and Interpreting Ruskin's Experimental Landscape

Current and recent doctoral students have worked on Nostalgia, Douglas Coupland and J G Ballard; the Harlem Renaissance; the figure of the graduate in contemporary narrative; nineteenth-century Transatlantic fiction; American Gothic; Ruskin and Aesthetics

I am interested in supervising research on Douglas Coupland; Ruskin; nineteenth-century religious thought and its relationship with literature; contemporary fiction and spirituality.

• Works of John Ruskin- Library Edition now on line!

  09/02/2011
  The first volumes of the PDF edition are now available. The Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin, edited by Cook and Wedderburn, has been available on CD-ROM for many years: changing technology ... Read more»

• CD-ROM of the Library Edition of Ruskin's Works

  05/07/2010
  The CD-ROM of the Library Edition of Ruskin's Works is recognised as an indispensable resource for anyone with an interest in Ruskin, from scholars and students to the general public. The existing app ... Read more»

• First book published from John Ruskin AHRC grant

  06/05/2009
  The first book to be published from Lancaster's AHRC grant on "John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre" was published on May 1 2009. The collection of essays entitled "Ruskin, the theatre and Victorian ... Read more»

• Yearbook of English Studies

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• Nineteenth-Century Contexts

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