Helen Small

Helen Small FBA is Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Merton College, Oxford. 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 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.

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

• 2008: Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, The Long Life
• 2008: Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, The Long Life
• 2018: Elected Fellow of the British Academy