Brian Bates

Dr. Brian Bates is a Full-Time Lecturer at California Polytechnic State University with a joint appointment in the English and Interdisciplinary Studies Departments. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Denver (2005), an M.A. from Clark University (2000), and a B.A. from the University of Delaware (1998). His research focuses on 18th- and 19th-century British literature, Romanticism, interdisciplinary pedagogy, and media studies.

His publications include Wordsworth’s Poetic Collections, Supplementary Writing and Parodic Reception (2012), edited volumes on Keats and Romanticism, and numerous articles on Romantic poets like Wordsworth, Keats, and Milton. He teaches courses such as British Literature in the Age of Romanticism and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Bates’ work bridges literary analysis with digital humanities, exploring topics like Keats’s 1820 volume, Wordsworth’s sonnet forms, and Gothic elements in Romanticism. His recent scholarship emphasizes the cyclical nature of sonnet structures in epic poetry, as seen in his analysis of Wordsworth’s The Prelude.