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
edit- 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
edit- ^ a b c Locher, Frances Carol, ed. (1980). Contemporary Authors. Vol. 85–88. Gale. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-8103-0047-7. OCLC 34034542.
- ^ a b "Joan M. Ferrante". Columbia University. Archived from the original on June 10, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
- ^ "Joan M. Ferrante". Le Cygne. 6 (6): 68–70. 2000. ISSN 1087-9501. JSTOR 44634949.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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- Green, D. H. (January 1976). Modern Language Review. 71 (1): 119–120. doi:10.2307/3724393. JSTOR 3724393.
- ^ Reviews of Guillaume d'Orange:
- ^ 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.
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- Klein, Karen (1977). Signs. 2 (3): 688–690. doi:10.1086/493397. ISSN 0097-9740. JSTOR 3173275.
- ^ 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.
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- Suitner, Franco (1986). Lettere Italiane. 38 (3): 442–444. ISSN 0024-1334. JSTOR 26263879.
- ^ 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.
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- Appelt, Ursula (1998). Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 17 (2): 349. doi:10.2307/464393. JSTOR 464393.
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