New Chaucer Society

The New Chaucer Society
AbbreviationNCS
Named afterGeoffrey Chaucer
PredecessorChaucer Society (1868–1912) 2
Formation1979
TypeProfessional academic organization
Legal statusActive
PurposeStudy of Geoffrey Chaucer and the Middle Ages
HeadquartersUniversity of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Location
  • Coral Gables, United States
Coordinates25°43′18″N 80°16′59″W / 25.72167°N 80.28311°W / 25.72167; -80.28311
OriginsUnited States
Region served
International
MethodsConferences, publications
FieldsMedieval literature, Geoffrey Chaucer
MembershipYes (high school teachers, college and university professors, graduate students)
Official language
English
Publication
Studies in the Age of Chaucer

The New Chaucer Society is a professional academic organization dedicated to the study of Geoffrey Chaucer and the Middle Ages, founded in 1979. It is based at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.

History

The predecessor of the New Chaucer Society, the Chaucer Society, was founded by Frederick James Furnivall in 1868 and closed in 1912.[1]

Publications and Outputs

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]

Past Presidents

References

  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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