Helen Fulton is Professor of English and Director of MEMO (Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research), a University Research Centre. She is currently Head of the School of Arts (2008-2009).

Professor Fulton has a special  interest in medieval Welsh poetry and the interface between English and Welsh literary cultures in the Middle Ages. She has produced an  edition of medieval Welsh poems as part of a larger editorial project, and has a continuing interest in theories of manuscript editing. Most of  her work is motivated by an attention to ideology and economic power as determinants of cultural production, both medieval and modern. Her current projects include a study of the representation of towns in medieval literature,  a study of literary and prophetic texts relating to the Wars of the Roses, and a survey of English material in Welsh manuscripts.

Professor Fulton is editor of the refereed journal 'Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion' and a member of the AHRC Peer Review College. She recently completed a British Academy Small Grant project, 'Arthurian Prophecy and the Lancastrian Kings' (2006-8) and is currently the Co-Investigator (with Principal Investigator Dr Catherine Clarke) on an AHRC project 'Mapping Medieval Chester' (2008-9).

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

The Medieval Town Imagined: Representations of Urban Culture in Medieval Literature

The Prophecy of the King: Literature and Politics in the Wars of the Roses

 

WORK IN PRESS

‘Writing the Nation II: Regions and Communities’, in E. Treharne and G. Walker (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Medieval English Literature (Oxford University Press)

‘Negotiating Welshness: Multilingualism in Wales Before and After 1066’, in E. Tyler (ed.), Conceptualising Multilingualism in England 800-1250 (Brepols)

‘Literature of the Welsh Gentry: Uses of the Vernacular in Late Medieval Wales’, in E. Salter and H. Wicker (eds), Vernacularity in England and Wales c. 1300-1550 (Brepols)

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2009  H. Fulton (ed.). A Companion to Arthurian Literature. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

2009  H. Fulton. ‘History and myth: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae’. In A Companion to Arthurian Literature (pp. 44-57).

2009  H. Fulton. ‘Arthur and Merlin in early Welsh literature: fantasy and magic naturalism’. In A Companion to Arthurian Literature (pp. 84-101).

2008  H. Fulton. Welsh Prophecy and English Politics in the Late Middle Ages. Aberystwyth: University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.

2008  H. Fulton. ‘Class and nation: defining the English in late-medieval Welsh poetry’. In R. Kennedy and S. Meecham-Jones (eds), Authority and Subjugation in the Writing of Medieval Wales (pp. 191-212). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

2008  H. Fulton. ‘Reading media images: the visual grammar of Kress and Van Leeuwen’. In P. Bounds and M. Jagmohan (eds), Recharting Media Studies: Essays on Neglected Media Critics (pp. 283-312). Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang.

2006  R. Evans, H. Fulton and D. Matthews (eds). Medieval Cultural Studies: Essays in Honour of Stephen Knight. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

2006  H. Fulton. ‘Cheapside in the age of Chaucer’. In Medieval Cultural Studies (pp. 138-151).

2006  H. Fulton. ‘Autobiography and the discourse of urban subjectivity: the Paston Letters’. In R. Bedford, L. Davis and P. Kelly (eds), Early Modern Autobiography: Theories, Genres, Practices (pp. 191-216). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

2006  H. Fulton. ‘The performance of social class: domestic violence in the Griselda story’. AUMLA Journal of Literary Language and Cultural Studies 106, pp. 25-42.

2006  H. Fulton. ‘Y Cywyddwyr a’r encomium urbis Cymreig’. Dwned 12, pp. 49-72.