Christopher Cannon is a

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. He is currently Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, previously Chair of Classics, and from 2020, Vice Dean for the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. His research and writings have focused on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, early Middle English, and elementary learning in the Middle Ages.

Education

He was educated at

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(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".

Career

Prior to moving to Hopkins in 2017, Cannon was chair of the Department of English at

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for 5 years. He held the Katharine Jex Blake Research Fellowship at

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(1993-6) and taught (for a time concurrently with his research fellowship) at

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(1995-6). He then taught at the

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in the Faculty of English and as Tutorial Fellow of

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(1997-2000) and, then, in the Faculty of English at the

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, first as a Fellow of Pembroke College and then, again, as a Fellow of Girton College. He is general co-editor of ''

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''.

Works

Monographs

* ''From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400'' Oxford University Press, 2016 Review: * ''Middle English Literature: a cultural history'' Polity, 2008 . * ''The Grounds of English Literature'' Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 Review: * ''The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. *

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.

Editions

Cannon is currently co-editing with Harvard's James Simpson on a new edition of all of Chaucer's whose goal is to produce an edition of Chaucer's work that sounds "authentically Chaucerian".

Prizes

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at MLA (2014) * John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2002-3) *The Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize,

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(1995)

References

External links

Cannon's profile at Johns Hopkins University

Christopher Cannon reads ‘Truth’ by Geoffrey Chaucer
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cannon, Christopher Living people Classical scholars of Johns Hopkins University Harvard University alumni Chaucer scholars Classical scholars of New York University Classical scholars of the University of Oxford Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge University of California, Los Angeles faculty 1965 births