Helen Moore (literary scholar)
British literary scholar
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Helen Dale Moore (born 1970[1]) is a British literary scholar, who specialises in medieval and early modern literature. Since 2018, she has served as the President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, having first joined the college as a tutorial fellow in English in 1996.[2] She is the first woman to hold that position in the college's 500-year history.[3] She is also a professor of English Literature in the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford.[4] She studied for her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Pembroke College, Oxford, where is she is an honorary fellow. She is also a member of the governing body of Manchester Grammar School.[5]
1970 (age 55–56)
Helen Moore | |
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| Born | Helen Dale Moore 1970 (age 55–56) |
| Occupations | Literary scholar and academic |
| Children | 3 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Oxford |
| Thesis | The ancient, famous and honourable history of Amadis de Gaul: a critical, modern-spelling edition of Anthony Munday's translation of Book One (1589; 1619) with introduction, notes and commentary (1996) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English studies |
Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
In 2021, she received the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for Amadis in English: A Study in the Reading of Romance as one of the co-winners.[6] This book was also awarded the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature in 2021.[7] In the same year she was elected to membership of the Academia Europaea.[2]
Selected works
- Moore, Helen, ed. (2004). Amadis de Gaule. Translated by Anthony Munday. Farnham: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0754607274.
- Moore, Helen, ed. (2007). Guy of Warwick, 1661. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0719077098.
- Hardie, Philip; Moore, Helen, eds. (2010). Classical literary careers and their reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521762977.
- Moore, Helen; Reid, Julian, eds. (2011). Manifold greatness: the making of the King James Bible. Oxford: The Bodleian Library. ISBN 978-1851243495.
- Helen Moore, Amadis in English: A Study in the Reading of Romance. Oxford University Press. 2020. ISBN 978-0198832423
