Christopher Cannon Author & Editor

Christopher Cannon was educated at Harvard, and has taught at UCLA, Oxford, Cambridge and, now, at NYU. He has written books on the traditional nature of Chaucer's language, early Middle English and literary form, as well as a cultural history of Middle English. He has held several fellowships from the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council , a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and he recently won the William Riley Parker Prize from the MLA. He is currently collaborating with James Simpson on a revised edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer for OUP.