Helen Moore (literary scholar)
Helen Moore | |
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| Born | Helen Dale Moore 1970 (age 54–55) |
| Occupation(s) | 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 |
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| Institutions | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
Helen Dale Moore (born 1970) 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. She is the first woman to hold that position in the college's 500-year history. She is also a professor of English Literature in the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford. 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.
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. This book was also awarded the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature in 2021. In the same year she was elected to membership of the Academia Europaea.