American scholar of medieval literature
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]
Publications
- The Conflict of Love and Honor: The Medieval Tristan Legend in France, Germany and Italy (1973)[5]
- Guillaume d'Orange: Four Twelfth-Century Epics (1974)[6]
- Woman as Image in Medieval Literature (1975)[7]
- The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy (1984)[8]
- To the Glory of Her Sex: Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts (1997)[9]
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