Joan Marguerite Aida Ferrante (born November 11, 1936) is an American scholar of medieval literature.
[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.
[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.
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.