Christopher Cannon (medievalist)

Christopher Cannon is a mediaevalist at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English[1] and Classics,[2] Chair of Classics, and from 2020, Vice Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.[3] He is a specialist on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Christopher Cannon
Born1965
Academic background
Education
ThesisThe making of Chaucer's English: a study in the formation of a literary language
Academic work
DisciplineMedievalist
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
Christopher Cannon, Johns Hopkins University

Education

He was educated at Harvard University (AB, AM, PhD). He received his doctorate in 1993 for a thesis "The making of Chaucer's English: a study in the formation of a literary language".[4]

Career

Prior to moving to Hopkins in 2017, Cannon was Chair of English at New York University for 5 years. He previously taught at the University of Oxford, UCLA, and University of Cambridge where he was a Fellow of Girton College. He is general co-editor of Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture.[5]

Works

Monographs
  • From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 Oxford University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780191824562 Review:[6]
  • Middle English Literature: a cultural history Polity, 2008 ISBN 9780745673585.[7]
  • The Grounds of English Literature Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 ISBN 9781429422024 Review:[8][9]
  • The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.[10]

Edited works
  • Mann, Jill, Christopher Cannon, and Maura Nolan. Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature: Essays in Honour of Jill Mann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN 9781846159268

Editions

Cannon is currently co-editing with Harvard's James Simpson a revision of the 19th-century edition of all of Chaucer's works by W.W. Skeat,[11] whose goal is to produce an edition of Chaucer's work "most authentically Chaucerian".[12]

Prizes

References
  1. "Christopher Cannon". English.
  2. "Christopher Cannon". Classics.
  3. "Christopher Cannon". Krieger School of Arts & Sciences.
  4. Worldcat item record
  5. "Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture - Oxford University Press". global.oup.com. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  6. Minnis, Alastair (2019). "Christopher Cannon, From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400". Spenser Review. 49 (1).
  7. "Middle English Literature: A Cultural History". English.
  8. Lawton, David (2006). "Review of The Grounds of English Literature by Christopher Cannon". Speculum. 81 (3): 820–821.
  9. Gillespie, Vincent (2007). "Review of The Grounds of English Literature by Christopher Cannon". The Modern Language Review. 102 (1): 197–198.
  10. "The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words". English.
  11. Evans, Ruth (October 1, 2017). "An Interim Report on the Standard Edition(s) of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer". New Chaucer Society. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
  12. Cannon, Christopher (February 9, 2015). "Some of Chaucer is missing". Oxford University Press. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
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