Helen Moore

Professor Helen Moore is President of Corpus Christi College and Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. Her scholarly work interrogates cultural, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries, focusing on literary reception, Jacobean drama, and early modern prose fiction.

• Academic leadership: President of Corpus Christi College (since 2018)
• Key research areas: Classical reception, Anglo-Spanish literary relations, chivalric romance
• Notable editorial work: Scholarly editions of Amadis de Gaule and Guy of Warwick

Research and Teaching spans medieval to early modern periods, with graduate supervision in both eras. Her interdisciplinary approach has revived neglected texts through:

• Analysis of Spanish romance reception in England
• Comparative studies between English and French literary cultures
• Investigations into Elizabethan prose fiction
• Curation of the Bodleian Libraries' 2011 exhibition on the King James Bible

Scientific Awards include:

• Joint winner of British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (2021)
• Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature (2021)
• Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2016-17)
• Academia Europaea membership (2021)

Collaborative Initiatives feature co-edited volumes with Cambridge's Classics Faculty and organization of interdisciplinary conferences on ekphrasis and literary careers.