Joan M. Ferrante

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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]

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  1. 1 2 3 Locher, Frances Carol, ed. (1980). Contemporary Authors. Vol. 85–88. Gale. p.  175. ISBN   978-0-8103-0047-7. OCLC   34034542.
  2. 1 2 "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.
  5. ↑ Reviews of Conflict of Love and Honor:
  6. ↑ Reviews of Guillaume d'Orange:
  7. ↑ Reviews of Woman as Image:
  8. ↑ Reviews of Political Vision:
  9. ↑ Reviews of To the Glory of Her Sex:


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