George Joseph Kane, FBA, FKC (4 July 1916 – 27 December 2008) was a Canadian literary scholar whose career was spent in England and the United States.
[10] Kane was promoted to a full lectureship in 1948 and authored Middle English Literature: A Critical Study of the Romances, the Religious Lyrics, Piers Plowman in 1951.
He was promoted to a readership two years later[9] and in 1955, he was appointed Professor of English Language and Literature at Royal Holloway College, London.
[11] In 1965, Kane moved again, to King's College London, to be Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature, where he remained until he retired in 1976;[4] he was the university's Public Orator from 1962 to 1966 and the dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1972 to 1974.
[2] From 1976 to 1987, Kane was the William Rand Kenan Jr Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; he chaired the Division of Humanities from 1980 to 1983.
[4] Kane died on 27 December 2008; his wife Bridget, the sister of one of his fellow wartime prisoners, survived him as did their daughter.