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Professor Helen Taylor
Emeritus Professor
Overview
Helen Taylor FRSA FEA is Emeritus Professor of English. In 2011 she was elected Honorary Fellow of the British Association of American Studies for her distinguished contributions to the subject. Having taught English and American literature and Women's Studies at the universities of Louisiana State, West of England, Bristol and Warwick, she moved to Exeter in 1999 where she was Head of English and University Arts and Culture Fellow. She was Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow 2016-18.
She has published widely on American southern literature and culture, and is also known for feminist critical articles and editions, as well as engagement with radical pedagogy. Her books include Gender, Race, and Region in the Writings of Grace King, Ruth McEnery Stuart, and Kate Chopin (1989), Scarlett's Women: Gone With the Wind and its Female Fans (1989, translated into Finnish and Japanese), with Richard H. King, Dixie Debates: Perspectives on Southern Cultures (1996), Circling Dixie: Contemporary Southern Culture through a Transatlantic Lens (2001) and The Daphne du Maurier Companion (2007). In recent years she has published on the transatlantic historical and cultural significance of the Storyville District of New Orleans, 1897-1917, as well as the post-Hurricane Katrina cultural revival of New Orleans. In 2015 she produced a British Film Institute Film Classic on Gone With the Wind.
She served on the AHRB 2000-2003 and convened the AHRB Postgraduate Panel. She was a member of the RAE 2008 American Studies and Anglophone Area Studies Sub-Panel. She has programmed for, and been on the Boards of, several literature festivals. She was the Director of the first two Liverpool Literary Festivals, 2016 and 2018.
Her latest book, from OUP, is Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives (2020).
Publications
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2007
- Taylor HR. (2007) Paris and New Orleans: The Transatlantic Cultural Legacy of Prostitution , Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe - Europe in the American South, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 309-334.
- Taylor HR. (2007) The Daphne du Maurier Companion.
2006
- Taylor, H.. (2006) Paris and New Orleans: The Transatlantic Cultural Legacy of Prostitution, Transatlantic Exchanges: The South in Europe - Europe in the American South.
- Taylor, H.. (2006) ‘Spectacular Secrets: New Orleans’s Storyville in Focus,’ to be published as part of the proceedings of the International Colloquium, ‘Transatlantic Exchanges: The South in Europe – Europe in the American South,’.
2004
- Taylor HR. (2004) The South through other eyes, The Blackwell Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South, Blackwell, 317-334.
- Taylor, H.. (2004) Introduction, Daphne du Maurier, Myself When Young, Virago Modern Classics, v-xviii.
2002
- Taylor, HR. (2002) Gone with the Wind and its Influence, The History of Southern Women's Literature, 258-267.
- Taylor HR. (2002) The South and Britain: Celtic Cultural Connections, South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture, Louisiana University Press, 340-362.