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* [[Harvard University]] (B.A. 1987, M.A. 1989, Ph.D. 1993) }} |
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| ⚫ | '''Christopher Cannon''' is a [[mediaevalist|medievalist]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]]. He is currently [[Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships|Bloomberg Distinguished Professor]] of English<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://english.jhu.edu/directory/chris-cannon/|title=Christopher Cannon|website=English}}</ref> and Classics,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://classics.jhu.edu/directory/christopher-cannon/|title=Christopher Cannon|website=Classics}}</ref> previously Chair of Classics, and from 2020-2024 Vice Dean for the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. His research and writings have focused on the works of [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], early Middle English, and elementary learning in the Middle Ages. |
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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".<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/857708323 Worldcat item record]</ref> |
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Prior to moving to Hopkins in 2017, Cannon was chair of the Department of English at [[New York University]] for 5 years. He held the Katharine Jex Blake Research Fellowship at [[Girton College, Cambridge]] (1993-6) and taught (for a time concurrently with his research fellowship) at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] (1995-6). He then taught at the [[University of Oxford]] in the Faculty of English and as Tutorial Fellow of [[St Edmund Hall]] (1997-2000) and, then, in the Faculty of English at the [[University of Cambridge]], first as a Fellow of [[Pembroke College, Cambridge|Pembroke College]] and then, again, as a Fellow of Girton College. He is general co-editor of ''[[Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture - Oxford University Press|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/o/oxford-studies-in-medieval-literature-and-culture-osmlc/?cc=us&lang=en&|access-date=2020-08-08|website=global.oup.com|language=en}}</ref> |
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:The primary page is [[Christopher Cannon]], which currently redirects to [[Chris Cannon]]. [[User:Nathan2055|Nathan2055]]<sup>[[User talk:Nathan2055|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Nathan2055|contribs]]</sup> 19:31, 5 August 2020 (UTC)}} |
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| ⚫ | '''Christopher Cannon''' is a [[mediaevalist]] at [ |
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He was educated at [[Harvard University]] (AB, AM, PhD). |
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Prior to moving to Hopkins in 2017, Cannon was Chair of English at [[New York University]] for 5 years. He has taught at the [[University of Oxford]], [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]], and [[University of Cambridge]] where he was a Fellow of [[Girton College, Cambridge|Girton College]]. |
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== Works == |
== Works == |
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[https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9661-2153 His works include:] |
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=== Monographs === |
=== Monographs === |
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* ''From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400'' Oxford University Press, 2016 {{ISBN|9780191824562}} Review:<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Minnis|first=Alastair|date=2019|title=Christopher Cannon, From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400|url=https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/item/49.1.9/|journal=Spenser Review|language=en|volume=49|issue=1}}</ref> |
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* ''[https://classics.jhu.edu/2016/06/30/from-literacy-to-literature-england-1300-1400/ From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400]'' |
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* ''[https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-grounds-of-english-literature-9780199230396?cc=us&lang=en& The Grounds of English Literature]'' |
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* ''The Grounds of English Literature'' Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 {{ISBN|9781429422024}} Review:<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lawton|first=David|year=2006|title=Review of ''The Grounds of English Literature'' by Christopher Cannon|journal=[[Speculum (journal)|Speculum]]|volume=81|issue=3|pages=820–821|doi=10.1017/S0038713400015864 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Gillespie|first=Vincent|year=2007|title=Review of ''The Grounds of English Literature'' by Christopher Cannon|journal=[[The Modern Language Review]]|volume=102|issue=1|pages=197–198|doi=10.1353/mlr.2007.0310 |s2cid=246648134 }}</ref> |
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* ''The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://english.jhu.edu/1999/03/13/the-making-of-chaucers-english-a-study-of-words/|title=The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words|website=English}}</ref> |
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===Edited works=== |
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*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}} |
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=== Editions === |
=== Editions === |
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Cannon is currently co-editing with Harvard's [[James Simpson (academic)|James Simpson]] on a new edition of all of Chaucer's <ref>{{cite web |first=Ruth |last=Evans |url=https://newchaucersociety.org/blog/entry/an-interim-report-on-the-standard-editions-of-the-works-of-geoffrey-chaucer |publisher=[[New Chaucer Society]] |accessdate=August 9, 2020 |date=October 1, 2017 |title=An Interim Report on the Standard Edition(s) of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer}}</ref> whose goal is to produce an edition of Chaucer's work that sounds "authentically Chaucerian".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/newsitem/92/some-of-chaucer-is-missing |accessdate=August 9, 2020 |date=February 9, 2015 |title=Some of Chaucer is missing |first=Christopher |last=Cannon |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> |
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He is currently co-editing with Harvard's [[James Simpson (academic)|James Simpson]] a revision of the 19th-century edition of all of Chaucer's works by [[Walter William Skeat|W.W. Skeat]]. |
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== Prizes == |
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[[William Riley Parker Prize]] at [[Modern Language Association|MLA]] (2014) |
*[[William Riley Parker Prize]] at [[Modern Language Association|MLA]] (2014) |
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== Influences == |
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* [[Derek Brewer]] |
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* [[Jill Mann]] |
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* [[Derek Pearsall]] |
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== References == |
== References == |
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{{reflist}} |
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* [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-grounds-of-english-literature-9780199230396?cc=us&lang=en&# Review of Cannon's The Grounds of English Literature] |
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* Yale University, English Christopher Cannon: ‘Elementary Learning and the Grammatical Style: The Case of Chaucer’ |
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== External links == |
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* [https://english.jhu.edu/directory/chris-cannon/ Cannon's profile at Johns Hopkins University] |
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4llmH5DKzY Christopher Cannon reads ‘Truth’ by Geoffrey Chaucer] |
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[https://english.yale.edu/news/department-news/christopher-cannon-elementary-learning-and-grammatical-style-case-chaucer Yale University, English Christopher Cannon:] ‘Elementary Learning and the Grammatical Style: The Case of Chaucer’ |
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[[Category:Living people]] |
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[[Category:Classical scholars of Johns Hopkins University]] |
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[[Category:Harvard University alumni]] |
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[[Category:Chaucer scholars]] |
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[[Category:Classical scholars of New York University]] |
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[[Category:Classical scholars of the University of Oxford]] |
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[[Category:Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge]] |
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[[Category:University of California, Los Angeles faculty]] |
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Latest revision as of 00:08, 16 August 2024
Christopher Cannon | |
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| Born | 1964 |
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| Thesis | The making of Chaucer's English: a study in the formation of a literary language |
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| Discipline | Medievalist |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
Christopher Cannon is a medievalist at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English[1] and Classics,[2] previously Chair of Classics, and from 2020-2024 Vice Dean for the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. His research and writings have focused on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, early Middle English, and elementary learning in the Middle Ages.
Education
[edit]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".[3]
Career
[edit]Prior to moving to Hopkins in 2017, Cannon was chair of the Department of English at New York University for 5 years. He held the Katharine Jex Blake Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge (1993-6) and taught (for a time concurrently with his research fellowship) at UCLA (1995-6). He then taught at the University of Oxford in the Faculty of English and as Tutorial Fellow of St Edmund Hall (1997-2000) and, then, in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, first as a Fellow of Pembroke College and then, again, as a Fellow of Girton College. He is general co-editor of Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture.[4]
Works
[edit]Monographs
[edit]- From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 Oxford University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780191824562 Review:[5]
- Middle English Literature: a cultural history Polity, 2008 ISBN 9780745673585.[6]
- The Grounds of English Literature Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 ISBN 9781429422024 Review:[7][8]
- The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.[9]
Edited works
[edit]- 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
[edit]Cannon is currently co-editing with Harvard's James Simpson on a new edition of all of Chaucer's [10] whose goal is to produce an edition of Chaucer's work that sounds "authentically Chaucerian".[11]
Prizes
[edit]- William Riley Parker Prize at MLA (2014)
- John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2002-3)
- The Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize, Medieval Academy of America (1995)
References
[edit]- ^ "Christopher Cannon". English.
- ^ "Christopher Cannon". Classics.
- ^ Worldcat item record
- ^ "Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture - Oxford University Press". global.oup.com. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
- ^ Minnis, Alastair (2019). "Christopher Cannon, From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400". Spenser Review. 49 (1).
- ^ "Middle English Literature: A Cultural History". English.
- ^ Lawton, David (2006). "Review of The Grounds of English Literature by Christopher Cannon". Speculum. 81 (3): 820–821. doi:10.1017/S0038713400015864.
- ^ Gillespie, Vincent (2007). "Review of The Grounds of English Literature by Christopher Cannon". The Modern Language Review. 102 (1): 197–198. doi:10.1353/mlr.2007.0310. S2CID 246648134.
- ^ "The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words". English.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Cannon, Christopher (February 9, 2015). "Some of Chaucer is missing". Oxford University Press. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
