Joan M. Ferrante

Joan Marguerite Aida Ferrante (born November 11, 1936) is an American scholar of medieval literature.

She was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.[1] She received a bachelor of arts from Barnard College in 1958 and a master's and PhD from Columbia University in 1959 and 1962, respectively.[1][2] She taught at Hunter College and Barnard, and as an instructor at Columbia, before becoming a professor at Columbia in 1966.[1] She retired in 2006.[2]

Ferrante was president of the Medieval Academy of America in 2000. Before that, she was president of the Dante Society of America and Phi Beta Kappa.[3] A conference was held in 2001 on the occasion of her 65th birthday. A Festschrift titled Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity: Essays in Honor of Joan M. Ferrante, which collected papers given at the conference, was published in 2005.[4]

  1. ^ a b c Locher, Frances Carol, ed. (1980). Contemporary Authors. Vol. 85–88. Gale. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-8103-0047-7. OCLC 34034542.
  2. ^ a b "Joan M. Ferrante". Columbia University. Archived from the original on June 10, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  3. ^ "Joan M. Ferrante". Le Cygne. 6 (6): 68–70. 2000. ISSN 1087-9501. JSTOR 44634949.
  4. ^ O’Donnell, Thomas (2007). "Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity: Essays in Honor of Joan M. Ferrante ed. by Teodolinda Barolini". Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 38 (1): 260–262. doi:10.1353/cjm.2007.0007. ISSN 1557-0290.