Helen Wenda Small FBA (born 23 October 1964) is the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
Her parents are Colin McEwen Small and Wenda Mary Lavinia Heald.
[2] She received a bachelors of arts degree in English from the Victoria University of Wellington in 1985 and a bachelor of arts with honours degree the following year.
[3] She received a Ph.D. from St Catharine's College at the University of Cambridge in 1991 and was made an honorary fellow in 2018.
She was a lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford, before becoming a professor and then a Jonathan and Julia Aisbitt Fellow in English Literature between 1996 and 2018.