Helen Wilcox
Helen Elizabeth Wilcox is a British literary scholar who specializes in early modern English literature. She is Professor of English Literature at Bangor University.
Biography
Helen Elizabeth Wilcox was born in 1955. She was educated at the University of Birmingham, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature in 1976, and the University of Oxford, where she earned her Doctor of Philosophy in 1984. Her thesis was titled The Reputation and Influence of George Herbert to 1715.She later worked as a lecturer in English literature at the University of Liverpool from 1979 until 1991, when she moved to the University of Groningen as a professor of English literature. She later moved to Bangor University, where she became Professor of English Literature.
As an academic, she specialises in Early Modern English literature, especially Christian devotional literature, William Shakespeare, and the early modern history of women's writing. She was the sole editor of Women and Literature in Britain 1500-1700. She also has co-edited several books specializing in English literature, some of which were also on the poet George Herbert. In 2014, she authored a book, 1611: Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern England.
She was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. She was elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2015. She is also a Fellow of the English Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.