Christopher Cannon (medievalist)

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". ==Career==

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 was general co-editor of Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Medieval Academy of America in 2025. == 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 In 2024, Cannon co-edited with Harvard's James Simpson a new edition of Chaucer whose goal was to produce an edition of Chaucer's work that sounds "authentically Chaucerian". == Prizes ==

• William Riley Parker Prize at MLA (2014) • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2002-3) • The Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize, Medieval Academy of America (1995) == References ==