Christopher Cannon (medievalist)

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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, Cannon 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:

Monographs

• 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

Editions

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)

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2002-3)

The Van Courtlandt Ellicott Prize, Medieval Academy of America (1995)

Influences

• Derek Brewer
• Jill Mann
• Derek Pearsall

References

• Review of Cannon's The Grounds of English Literature

• Yale University, English Christopher Cannon: ‘Elementary Learning and the Grammatical Style: The Case of Chaucer’
• Christopher Cannon, From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 by Alastair Minnis