Jonathan Bate is a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University, where he was formerly Provost of Worcester College, and Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University. He is well known as a biographer, critic, creative writer and broadcaster, and has authored award-winning biographies of William Wordsworth, John Clare and Ted Hughes, as well as many works on Shakespeare. He has a CBE for services to higher education and was knighted for services to literary scholarship.