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.
Education
He was educated at Harvard University (AB, AM, PhD). He received his doctorate in 2013 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]
- The Grounds of English Literature Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 ISBN 9781429422024 Review:[7][8][9]
- Middle English Literature: a cultural history Polity, 2013.ISBN 9780745673585.[10]
- The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.[11]
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,[12] whose goal is to produce an edition of Chaucer's work "most authentically Chaucerian".[13]
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)
References
- ^ "Christopher Cannon". English.
- ^ "Christopher Cannon". Classics.
- ^ "Christopher Cannon". Krieger School of Arts & Sciences.
- ^ Worldcat item record [1]
- ^ "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).
- ^ Lawton, David (2006). "Review of The Grounds of English Literature by Christopher Cannon". Speculum. 81 (3): 820–821.
- ^ Gillespie, Vincent (2007). "Review of The Grounds of English Literature by Christopher Cannon". The Modern Language Review. 102 (1): 197–198.
- ^ Robertson, Elizabeth (2007). "Review of The Grounds of English Literature by Christopher Cannon". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 106 (4): 531–534.
- ^ "Middle English Literature: A Cultural History". English.
- ^ "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.
