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Helen Small FBA is Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Merton College, Oxford.[1] She was previously a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.

Biography

Helen W. Small was awarded a B.A. in English from Victoria University of Wellington[2] and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. She was the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from 2001 to 2004. She attended Queen Margaret College in 1970-1982 and was Prefect and Dux in her final year.[citation needed]

Published works

  • Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865 (Oxford University Press, 1996)
  • The Public Intellectual (editor; Blackwell, 2002)
  • Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830-1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer (editor, with Trudi Tate; Oxford University Press, 2003)
  • The Long Life (Oxford University Press, 2007)
  • The Value of the Humanities (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ^ "Professor Helen Small appointed to Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature". Pembroke College, Oxford. 18 January 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  2. ^ "News & Events". Victoria University of Wellington. Archived from the original on 2007-11-30. Former VUW English graduate Helen Small, now Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, has had great success with the publication of her award-winning book on old age, The Long Life...
  3. ^ "Rose Mary Crawshay Prizes". British Academy. Archived from the original on 2008-09-17.
  4. ^ "Helen Small wins 2008 Truman Capote Award for literary criticism". University of Iowa. 2008-04-30.
  5. ^ "Record number of academics elected to British Academy | British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
2008
Succeeded by