Helen Dale Moore (born 1970) is a British literary scholar, who specialises in

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and

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. Since 2018, she has served as the

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. She is the first woman to hold that position in the college's 500-year history. She is also an

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in the Faculty of English Language and Literature,

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. In 2021, she received the

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for ''Amadis in English: A Study in the Reading of Romance'' as one of the co-winners.

Selected works

* * * * * Helen Moore, ''Amadis in English: A Study in the Reading of Romance''. Oxford University Press. 2020.

References

Living people British literary historians Historians of English literature Presidents of Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1970 births Women literary historians British women historians {{UK-historian-stub