Trudi Tate has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and has taught at the universities of Western Australia, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Southampton. In 1999-2000, she was a Visiting Professor at the Goethe University, Frankfurt. In 2001 she was elected a Fellow of Clare Hall, where she is currently a Tutor and editor of the Clare Hall Review and the Clare Hall Record.
Dr Tate specialises in the study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, with a particular interest in war writings from the Crimea to Viet Nam. She also works on psychoanalysis and literature, and has an interest in childhood in literature. Her teaching includes nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and twentieth-century American literature for undergraduate papers in Cambridge. She also supervises MPhil and PhD students, mainly on topics in early twentieth-century literature, with special interests in the First World War; literature and psychoanalysis; literature and music.
She has published books and articles on women in modernism, and on literature and cultural history of the First World War, the Crimean War, and the American/Viet Nam War. Authors she has published on include Virginia Woolf, Tennyson, Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence, and H.D. She has also worked on the cultural history of the tank in the First World War.