Christopher Cannon (medievalist)

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Christopher Cannon
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Born1965
Academic background
Education
ThesisThe making of Chaucer's English: a study in the formation of a literary language
Academic work
DisciplineMedievalist
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University

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 1993 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]
  • Middle English Literature: a cultural history Polity, 2008 ISBN 9780745673585.[7]
  • The Grounds of English Literature Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 ISBN 9781429422024 Review:[8][9]
  • The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.[10]

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,[11] whose goal is to produce an edition of Chaucer's work "most authentically Chaucerian".[12]

Prizes[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Christopher Cannon". English.
  2. ^ "Christopher Cannon". Classics.
  3. ^ "Christopher Cannon". Krieger School of Arts & Sciences.
  4. ^ Worldcat item record
  5. ^ "Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture - Oxford University Press". global.oup.com. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  6. ^ Minnis, Alastair (2019). "Christopher Cannon, From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400". Spenser Review. 49 (1).
  7. ^ "Middle English Literature: A Cultural History". English.
  8. ^ Lawton, David (2006). "Review of The Grounds of English Literature by Christopher Cannon". Speculum. 81 (3): 820–821.
  9. ^ Gillespie, Vincent (2007). "Review of The Grounds of English Literature by Christopher Cannon". The Modern Language Review. 102 (1): 197–198.
  10. ^ "The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words". English.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Cannon, Christopher (February 9, 2015). "Some of Chaucer is missing". Oxford University Press. Retrieved August 9, 2020.

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