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Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Professor Helen Cooper was an undergraduate, research student and research fellow at Cambridge before being appointed as the first woman fellow at University College, Oxford, in 1978. In 2004, she returned to Cambridge as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance in English, a post originally created for C.S.Lewis - who also held it in Magdalene.
Professor Cooper is essentially interested in the continuity of literature across the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Her thesis was on pastoral (literature that uses the shepherd world as a metaphor for the real one: there's a surprising amount of it) from the late Classical period to Milton. Her most recent book is on romance, from its invention in the twelfth century to the death of Shakespeare. She has also published extensively on the Canterbury Tales.
Professor Cooper can be contacted by:
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