Dr Helen Morales is a classicist and the second Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
She is best known for her scholarship on the ancient novel, gender and sexuality, and Greek mythology, as well for her public writing and lectures.
In 1998–1999 she was a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC, and in 2011 was the Gail A. Burnett Lecturer at San Diego State University.
[6] Morales grew up on the south coast of England, to a mother from Yorkshire and a father from Cyprus.
Her maternal aunt was the British theatre director Annie Castledine.