Joan M. Ferrante

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]

References

  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.
  5. ^ Reviews of Conflict of Love and Honor:
    • Green, D. H. (January 1976). Modern Language Review. 71 (1): 119–120. doi:10.2307/3724393. JSTOR 3724393.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Trindade (1977). Medium Ævum. 46 (2): 317–321. doi:10.2307/43628291. JSTOR 43628291.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. ^ Reviews of Guillaume d'Orange:
    • Mériz, Diana Teresa (1975). Olifant. 2 (4): 280–284. ISSN 0381-9132. JSTOR 45297607.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Schenck, David P. (1976). The French Review. 49 (3): 408. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 390185.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. ^ Reviews of Woman as Image:
    • Klein, Karen (1977). Signs. 2 (3): 688–690. doi:10.1086/493397. ISSN 0097-9740. JSTOR 3173275.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Kelly, H. A. (July 1977). Speculum. 52 (3): 715–721. doi:10.2307/2854946. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2854946.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. ^ Reviews of Political Vision:
    • Suitner, Franco (1986). Lettere Italiane. 38 (3): 442–444. ISSN 0024-1334. JSTOR 26263879.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Kay, Richard (October 1986). Speculum. 61 (4): 925–927. doi:10.2307/2853993. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2853993.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Herzman, Ronald B. (1986). Italica. 63 (3): 306. doi:10.2307/478633. JSTOR 478633.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  9. ^ Reviews of To the Glory of Her Sex:
    • Appelt, Ursula (1998). Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 17 (2): 349. doi:10.2307/464393. JSTOR 464393.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hansen, Elaine Tuttle (2000). Signs. 25 (2): 610–614. doi:10.1086/495469. ISSN 0097-9740. JSTOR 3175584.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Fraioli, Deborah (October 1999). Speculum. 74 (4): 1058–1060. doi:10.2307/2886996. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2886996.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Blamires, Alcuin (2001). Modern Philology. 98 (3): 446–450. doi:10.1086/492972. ISSN 0026-8232. JSTOR 438848.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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