Prof. Jonathan Bate CBE FBA, provost of Worcester College and professor of English literature at the University of Oxford, visited the University of Macau’s (UM) Moon Chun Memorial College on 17 February. Prof. Bate was warmly received by College Master Prof. Kevin Thompson, Dr. Thompson, Dr. Samuel Choi, Dr Ray Cheung, and other college members.
Prof. Bate toured the new campus and held a small-group seminar and sharing session, drawing on a considerable oeuvre, particularly his seminal work on Shakespeare and his West End play, Shakespeare – The Man from Stratford. In addition to MCM College members, Dr. Robert Wessling, Dr. Katrine Wong, and Dr. Damien Shaw also attended the seminar.
Prof. Bate studied at Cambridge and Harvard. Eminent as a biographer, critic, broadcaster and scholar, he has extensive research interests in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, romanticism, biography and life-writing, ecocriticism, contemporary poetry and theatre history. He is a fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, as well as an honorary fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Prior to moving to Oxford in 2011, he was a fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, then King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool, and then professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature at the University of Warwick. He is a governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcasts frequently for the BBC, writes for the Guardian, Times, TLS and Sunday Telegraph, and has held visiting appointments at Yale and UCLA. In 2006 he was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s 80th Birthday Honours for his services to higher education. He is vice president (leading the humanities) of the British Academy.
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