Helen Fulton is currently professor of medieval literature at the University of Bristol.
[2] She worked as professor of medieval literature and head of the Department of English at the University of York from 2010 to 2015, before being appointed professor and chair of medieval literature at the University of Bristol's Department of English, a post she currently holds.
[1][2] She has previously held visiting research fellowships at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Clare Hall, Cambridge, St John's College, Oxford and Magdalen College, Oxford and in 2024 she will be visiting research fellow at the Humanities Research Centre in the Australian National University in Canberra.
[1] She is the chair of the editorial board of the University of Wales Press[2] and has been the editor of the Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion since 2008.
She has been the principal investigator or co-investigator of 17 funded research projects in the United Kingdom and Australia.