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 from 2020, 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 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.
Works
Monographs
- From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 (Oxford University Press, 2016)
- Middle English Literature: A Cultural History (Polity Press, 2008)
- The Grounds of English Literature (Oxford University Press, 2004)
- The Making of Chaucer’s English: A Study of Words (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
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
YouTube reading
Christopher Cannon reads ‘Truth’ by Geoffrey Chaucer
References
External links
- Cannon's profile at Johns Hopkins University
- Christopher Cannon, From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 by Alastair Minnis [1]
- The Sensorium of Reading at Johns Hopkins
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- ^ Minnis, Alastair (2019). "Christopher Cannon, From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400". Spenser Review. 49 (1).