Julian Yates
Biography
Julian Yates received his B.A. (Hons.) in English Language and Literature from St. Anne's College, Oxford University in 1990 and PhD in English Literature from UCLA in 1996. He specializes in Medieval and Renaissance British Literature, literary theory, material culture studies, and the environmental humanities. He is the author of numerous essays and five books: Error, Misuse, Failure: Object Lessons from the English Renaissance (U. Minnesota Press, 2003), which was a finalist for the Modern Language Association's Best First Book Prize; What's the Worst Thing You Can Do To Shakespeare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), co-authored with Richard Burt; Object-Oriented Environs in Early Modern England (Punctum Books, 2016), co-edited with Jeffrey J. Cohen; Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multispecies Impression (U. Minnesota Press, 2017), which won the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize from the Society for the Study of Literature, Science, and the Arts; and, with Jeffrey J. Cohen, Noah’s Arkive (U. Minnesota Press, 2023).
His research has been supported by grants from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library, the American Philosophical Society, and the UPenn. Humanities Center. In 2019, he was honored with a CAS Outstanding Scholarship Award.
He is currently at work on two projects: Hallucinated Performances (a minor history of performances that may or may not have occurred); and an emerging project on pre-modern extinctions.
