Helen Fulton

Helen Fulton is an academic specialising in medieval literature. She is a professor at the University of Bristol.

Career Helen Fulton studied at the University of Oxford and the University of Sydney. Following her PhD completion at the University of Sydney, she spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. She then worked as a lecturer and associate professor at the University of Sydney, before being appointed Professor of English at Swansea University in 2005,

In 2014 she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and, in 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, where she is currently vice president for humanities, arts and social sciences.

Research She specialises in medieval Welsh literature and its connection to medieval English and Irish literature. Her main research interests include history and politics of medieval literature, classical reception in the Middle Ages, Arthurian literature and medieval urban literature. She has been the principal investigator or co-investigator of 17 funded research projects in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Selected works

Fulton, Helen (2012). A Companion to Arthurian Literature. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-4706-7237-2 Fulton, Helen (2012). Urban Culture in Medieval Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-2503-2 Fulton, Helen; Evans, Geraint (eds) (2019). The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-10676-5 Fulton, Helen (2021). Chaucer and Italian Culture. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-1-78683-678-6