Christopher Cannon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 |
| Academic background | |
| Education |
|
| Thesis | The making of Chaucer's English: a study in the formation of a literary language |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Medievalist |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
Christopher Cannon is a medievalist at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English [1] and Classics, [2] previously Chair of Classics,and from 2020-2024 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.
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". [3]
Prior to moving to Hopkins in 2017,Cannon was chair of the Department of English at New York University for 5 years. He held the Katharine Jex Blake Research Fellowship at Girton College,Cambridge (1993-6) and taught (for a time concurrently with his research fellowship) at UCLA (1995-6). He then taught at the University of Oxford in the Faculty of English and as Tutorial Fellow of St Edmund Hall (1997-2000) and,then,in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge,first as a Fellow of Pembroke College and then,again,as a Fellow of Girton College. He is general co-editor of Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture . [4] He was elected to the Fellowship of the Medieval Academy of America in 2025.
Cannon is currently co-editing with Harvard's James Simpson on a new edition of all of Chaucer's [10] whose goal is to produce an edition of Chaucer's work that sounds "authentically Chaucerian". [11]
