Helen Craig McCullough (February 17, 1918 – April 6, 1998) was an American academic, translator and Japanologist.
She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1939 with a degree in political science.
[1] Early in World War II, she studied Japanese at the U.S. Navy’s Language School in Boulder, Colorado.
In 1969, she and William both joined the Department of Oriental Languages at Berkeley, her alma mater, where she began as lecturer and later received tenure as Professor of Oriental Languages in 1975.
[1][3] McCullough’s scholarly publications included 11 volumes of studies and translations.