Helen Cooper

Elizabeth Helen Cooper, (born 6 February 1947), known as Helen Cooper, is a British literary scholar. From 2004 to 2014, she was Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Early life and education Cooper was born on 6 February 1947 in Nottingham, England. Her parents were Percy Edward Kent, an exploration geologist, and Betty Kent.

Academic career From 1971 to 1974, Cooper was a junior research fellow at New Hall, Cambridge. During this time, she was also a lecturer in English at the University of Oxford, From 2000 to 2002, she was also the president of the New Chaucer Society. In 2016 she delivered the British Academy's Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture.

Selected works Cooper, H. (1978). Pastoral: Mediaeval into Renaissance. D. S. Brewer Cooper, H. (1983). The Structure of the Canterbury Tales. Duckworth and University of Georgia Press Cooper, H (1996) Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Oxford University Press. Cooper, H. & Mapstone, S. (1997). The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray Counter-Romance: Civil Strife and Father-killing in the Prose Romances. Oxford University Press Cooper, H. (1998). Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur – Winchester Manuscript. Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics) Cooper, H. (1999). The Four Last Things in Chaucer and Dante: Ugolino in the House of Rumour. New Medieval Literatures 3 Cooper, H. (2003). Chaucerian Representation; Chaucerian Poetics. In: New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry, ed. Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, Chaucer Studies. D. S. Brewer Cooper, H. (2004). Speaking for the Victim. In: Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare, eds. Corinne Saunders, Francois Le Saux and Neil Wright. D. S. Brewer Cooper, H. (2004). The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare. Oxford University Press Cooper, H. (2010). Shakespeare and the Medieval World, Arden Companions to Shakespeare. A & C Black.