New Chaucer Society

The New Chaucer Society is a professional academic organization dedicated to the study of Geoffrey Chaucer and the Middle Ages, founded in 1979. Its predecessor, the original Chaucer Society, had been founded by Frederick James Furnivall in 1868 and had closed in 1912.^[1] It is based at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.

The society publishes an annual journal, Studies in the Age of Chaucer.^[2] The society also organizes a biennial international congress and supports the Chaucer Bibliography Online.^[3] It is one of the only organizations of its kind that actively recruits high school teachers as well as college and university professors and graduate students.^{[citation needed]}

The biennial international congress is on of the premier colloquia for English medieval studies.

Recent congresses have been as follows:

2024: Pasadena, USA. Presidential Lecture, Stephanie Trigg; Biennial Lecture, Marion Turner.
2022: Durham, UK. Presidential Lecture, Anthony Bale; Biennial Lecture, Carissa Harris.
2020: online expo. Presidential Lecture, Ruth Evans
2018: Toronto, Canada. Presidential Lecture, Ardis Butterfield; Biennial Lecture, Maura Nolan.
2016: London, UK. Presidential Lecture, Susan Crane; Biennial Lecture, Stephanie Trigg.
2014: Reykjavik, Iceland. Presidential Lecture, Alastair Minnis; Biennial Lecture, James Simpson.
2012: Portland, USA. Presidential Lecture, Carolyn Dinshaw; Biennial Lecture, Anne Middleton.
2010: Siena, Italy. Presidential Lecture, Richard Firth Green; Biennial Lecture, L. O. Aranye Fradenburg.

References

^ Antonia Ward, "'My Love For Chaucer': F. J. Furnivall and Homosociality in the Chaucer Society," in Medievalism and the Academy, ed. Leslie, J. Workman, Kathleen Verduin, and David D. Metzger (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999), 48.
^ Stephanie Trigg, Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 23.
^ Paul R. Burden, A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites, (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010), 43.

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[1] Antonia Ward, "'My Love For Chaucer': F. J. Furnivall and Homosociality in the Chaucer Society," in Medievalism and the Academy, ed. Leslie, J. Workman, Kathleen Verduin, and David D. Metzger (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999), 48.

[2] Stephanie Trigg, Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 23.

[3] Paul R. Burden, A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites, (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010), 43.

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