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.