Moore, Dr Helen

Job Title: CUF Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow
College: Corpus Christi
Period/ Subject: Early Modern

Email address: helen.moore@ell.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Medieval and early modern English Literature - specifically English romance and relations with French and Spanish; 16th century English prose fiction; Tudor literature; textual criticism (16th, early 17th century); Anthony Munday.

Teaching Areas:

Medieval and early modern English Literature

Recent Publications:

‘Gathering Fruit: The "Profitable" Translations of Thomas Paynell’, in Tudor Translation, ed. Fred Schurink, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Manifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible, ed. with Julian Reid, Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing, 2011

‘The Eastern Mediterranean in the English Amadis Cycle, Book V’, Yearbook of English Studies 41 (2011), 113-25

Classical Literary Careers and their Reception, ed. with Philip Hardie, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010

‘Ancient and Modern Romance’, in The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, vol. 2, 1550-1660, ed. Gordon Braden, Robert Cummings and Stuart Gillespie, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010

‘Sir Philip Sidney and the Arcadias’, in The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature, 1485-1603, ed. Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009

 Other Information:

Helen Moore teaches medieval and early modern literature, and is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. Her teaching and research interests typically interrogate the boundaries of cultures, periods and disciplines. She supervises graduates in both the medieval and early modern periods, and much of her recent research is concerned with the reception in English of continental and classical texts (specifically romance). The groundwork for her interdisciplinary research has been laid by bringing neglected texts back to academic attention, and to that end she has published two scholarly editions (of the sixteenth-century prose romance Amadis de Gaule (2004) and the seventeenth-century play Guy of Warwick (2007)). She has written a book-length study of the English reception of Amadis from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries (for which she received a period of AHRC funding), and is now turning her attention to a book on the literary cultures and traditions linking early modern England and France. Other research interests include early modern drama (especially Jonson, Dekker, Webster, Munday and Shakespeare), prose fiction, Sidney, and medieval romance.

With Philip Hardie of the Classics Faculty in Cambridge she edited Classical Literary Careers and their Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Dr Moore has co-organised with Corpus classical colleagues two interdisciplinary conferences (the Passmore Edwards symposia) on the topics of ekphrasis and literary careers.  She chaired the curatorial committee of the 2011 Bodleian Libraries summer exhibition, Manifold Greatness: Oxford and the Making of the King James Bible, marking the 400th anniversary of the translation of the King James Bible, and with Julian Reid edited the accompanying book, Manifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible (Bodleian Library Publications, 2011). 

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