Christopher Cannon (medievalist)

Christopher Cannon is a mediaevalist at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Chair of Classics, and Vice Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is a leading authority of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Education

He was educated at Harvard University (AB, AM, PhD).

Career

Prior to moving to Hopkins in 2017 was Chair of English at New York University for 5 years. He has taught at the University of Oxford, UCLA, and University of Cambridge where he was a Fellow of Girton College.

Works

His works include:

From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400

The Grounds of English Literature

Middle English Literature: A Cultural History

The Making of Chaucer’s English: A Study of Words

He 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.

Prizes

William Riley Parker Prize at MLA (2014)

He has held a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

Influences

Derek Brewer

Jill Mann

Derek Pearsall

References

1. Cannon's profile at Johns Hopkins University
2. Review of Cannon's From Literacy to Literature