Helen Smith is a scholar of

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. She is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Head of the Department of English and Related Literature at the

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Career

Smith completed a

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degree at the

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, before carrying out her

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at the

; her

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was awarded in 2003 for her

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"'Grossly material things': women and textual production in England, c. 1550–1650". She taught at the

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and at the University of Hertfordshire, and then joined the Department of English and Related Literature at York in 2004. She has since held a senior lectureship,

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and professorship there; as of 2018, she is also head of the department."Professor Helen Smith"
''University of York''. Retrieved 21 September 2018."'Grossly material things': women and textual production in England, c. 1550–1650"
''EThOS'' (British Library). Retrieved 21 September 2018. Smith's book ''Grossly Material Things'' (2012) was awarded the Roland H. Bainton Literature Prize by the

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, and the

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by the

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. According to her University of York profile, Smith's research focuses on "Renaissance poetry, drama, and prose; history of the book; feminist literary history and theory; conversion; the Bible; the history of reading; and materiality".

Selected publications

* (Co-editor with Louise Wilson) ''Renaissance Paratexts'' (

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, 2011) * ''Grossly Material Things: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England'' (

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, 2012). * (Co-editor with Kevin Killeen and Rachel Judith Willie) ''The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England'' (

, 2015). * (Co-editor with

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) '' Conversions: Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe'' (

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, 2017).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Helen Living people British academics of English literature Alumni of the University of Glasgow Alumni of the University of York Academics of the University of York Year of birth missing (living people)