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Helen Small

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Helen Small

Aliases: Helen Wenda Small

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1964-10-23 (Wellington, New Zealand)
Nationality
New Zealand
Languages
English
Residence History
Wellington, New Zealand → Oxford, United Kingdom

Career

Occupations
Professor of English Language and Literature, Literary Critic
Active Years
1985-2024
Affiliations
Pembroke College, Oxford, Merton College, Oxford
Memberships
British Academy (FBA), English Association (Fellow)

Education

Victoria University of Wellington
English
Degree: Bachelor of Arts (Hons)
Period: 1983-1986
Year of Graduation: 1986
Country: New Zealand
BA 1985, BA Hons 1986
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
English
Degree: Ph.D.
Period: 1987-1991
Year of Graduation: 1991
Country: United Kingdom
Honorary Fellow 2018

Awards

Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
2008
Work: The Long Life
Organization: British Academy
Result: 受賞
Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
2008
Work: The Long Life
Organization: University of Iowa
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800–1865

1996 Literary Criticism

The Long Life

2007 Literary Criticism

The Value of the Humanities

2013 Literary Criticism

Bibliography

  • Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800–1865 (1996)
  • The Public Intellectual (2002, editor)
  • Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830–1970 (2003, editor)
  • The Long Life (2007)
  • The Value of the Humanities (2013)

Legacy

Recognized as Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University, known for her literary criticism, particularly on longevity and the value of humanities.