Humanities in the Village with Christopher Cannon: THE OXFORD CHAUCER

You're invited to February's Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible.
February's event features Christopher Cannon, co-editor of The Oxford Chaucer, a new scholarly-yet-accessible set that combines complete coverage of Chaucer's works with reader-friendly access to individual texts. Sharon Achinstein will join as Chris' interlocutor.
Audience Q&A after the reading—all are welcome! And while you’re there, pick up some recommended titles from Bird in Hand, and enjoy the offerings of nighttime beverages.

Purchase The Oxford Chaucer here!

Christopher Cannon is Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics at Johns Hopkins University. He was educated at Harvard and has taught previously at UCLA, Oxford (as a Fellow of St Edmund Hall), Cambridge (as a Fellow of Girton College), and New York University. He works primarily on writings in Middle English from 1100–1500 and, in particular, on the emergence of 'English literature' as a meaningful category in this period.

In her research and teaching, Professor Achinstein has explored the intersection of literature and political communication in the early modern period, specifically focused on questions of toleration, religious dissent, and women’s participation. Form and ideology are two abiding concerns. Her two monographs, Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (1994) and Literature and Dissent in Milton’s England (2003) and two edited collections, Milton and Toleration (2007) and Literature, Gender and the English Revolution (1994), placed works of literature in relation to the emerging public sphere and challenges to political and religious authority. Building on her scholarship on Milton, she has queried the history of the discipline of Renaissance literary studies, exploring how the economic pressures and values of the post-war University in the USA shaped the study of renaissance literature.

Her most recent research faces the history of marriage towards literature, law, politics, and theology, directions pursued in work on her edition of Milton's writings on divorce (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Through this project, Achinstein's current work engages in debates over secularism, gender, sexuality and human right in early modernity.

She is the recipient of ACLS and NEH Fellowships, has held a Folger fellowship, as well as British Academy and Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) Fellowships.

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