 Medal for the Society created by Joseph Coletti in 1965[1] | |
| Formation | 1881 |
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| Founder | |
| Founded at | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Membership (2022) | 374[2] |
President | Alison Cornish |
| Website | https://www.dantesociety.org/ |
The Dante Society of America is an American academic society devoted to the study of Dante Alighieri. One of the oldest scholarly societies in North America, it predates both the Modern Language Association, founded in 1883, and the American Historical Association, founded in 1884.[3] After the German Dante Society (German: Deutsche Dante-Gesellschaft; founded in 1865), it is the second-oldest scholarly organization devoted to the study of Dante.[4] The Society was also one of the first scholarly societies in the United States to have women among its founding members. The current president is Alison Cornish of New York University.[5]
- ^ "Eighty-Fourth: Annual Report of the Dante Society of America". Dante Studies, with the Annual Report of the Dante Society (84): 129. 1966. ISSN 0070-2862. JSTOR 40166106.
- ^ Dupont, Christian (May 6, 2023). "141st Annual Meeting of the Dante Society of America" (PDF). Dante Society of America. p. 6.
- ^ "Welcome". Dante Society. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
- ^ "Dante Society of America on JSTOR". JSTOR. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
- ^ "Committees | Dante Society". Dante Society.