Helen Moore (literary scholar)

• Early modern literature
• English Renaissance theatre
• Early Modern English Bible translations
• Chivalric romance
• Classical tradition
• Renaissance studies

Helen Moore
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)
Institutions	Corpus Christi College, Oxford

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]

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

References

1. "Helen Dale MOORE". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Companies House. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
2. "Professor Helen Moore". Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
3. Elsner, Jaś. "Dr Helen Moore elected President". Corpus Christi College Oxford. Archived from the original on 13 October 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
4. "Dr Helen Moore". Faculty of English. University of Oxford. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
5. "Helen Moore". The Manchester Grammar School. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
6. "Dr Helen Moore wins the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize". University of Oxford. 2 September 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
7. "Roland H. Bainton Prizes". The Sixteenth Century Society. Literature: Helen Moore, Amadis in English (Oxford University Press) 2020

Academic offices
Preceded by Sir Steven Cowley	President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford 2018–present	Incumbent