Publications

The Dante Society of America maintains the following publications:

To commemorate the 700th anniversary of Dante's death in 2021, the Dante Society is collaborating with New York University's Department of Italian Studies and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò to produce podcast conversations about all 100 cantos of the Divine Comedy. The podcasts will be available as YouTube videos, hosted and archived by NYU and the Dante Society of America. Episodes will be released regularly beginning in June 2020, though not necessarily in numerical order. For more information, including how to record and contribute videos, please visit the Canto per Canto: Talking with Dante in Our Time project page.

The Dante Society of America regularly organizes panel sessions at various academic conferences, and holds its own annual meeting and conference.

Upcoming Events

1st Annual DSA Graduate Student Conference: Dante's Other Worlds (New York University, September 28, 2024)

The Graduate Student Group of the Dante Society of America has organized its first annual conference. It will be held at New York University on Saturday, September 28. For further details and the conference program, please visit the Graduate Student Group page on this website.

2025 DSA Symposium, April 11, 2025

The 2025 Annual Symposium will be held at New York University on April 11, 2025. Details forthcoming.

International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8-10, 2025

The 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies will be held at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, from May 8-10, 2024. The Dante Society of America is organizing two panel sessions:

  1. Dante (session ID: 5925). This is an open call for papers. The papers should engage with Dante’s work both from within the field of Dante Studies and through a multitude of interdisciplinary perspectives. 
  2. Dante and Ovid (session ID: 6101). This is a new and exciting collaboration between the Societas Ovidiana and the Dante Society of America, and we hope you will consider presenting! The relationship between Dante and Ovid has long been acknowledged in scholarship, but further questions remain on the precise nature of the relationship between the two – especially in the light of new developments in linguistic, material, and classical reception studies. This panel invites papers which assess Dante and Ovid anew. 

Please, note that this is an in-person event, which means that only those who plan to attend the Congress in person next May should submit proposals. 

Paper proposals can be submitted on the official call for papers on the Congress website. You can also use this direct link: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=6101. 

Proposals for papers will be accepted through September 15, 2024. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to write to 

Recorded Events

  • The 140th Annual Meeting of the Dante Society of America was held online on May 7, 2022. It was followed by a program commemorating Robert Hollander and John Freccero, two influential Dantists who died during the previous year. A videorecording of the meeting and program is available on the Society's
    YouTube channel.
  • The 139th Annual Meeting of the Dante Society of America was held online on May 16, 2021. A videorecording is available on the Society's
    YouTube channel.
  • Video recordings of sessions from the 2021 Annual Symposium of the Dante Society of America, "'Tra liti si lontani': Dante for the Americas," are available as a
    playlist
    on the Society's
    YouTube channel. The symposium was on hosted online by Harvard University in collaboration with the Society on 5-13 May 2021.
  • The 137th Annual Meeting of the Dante Society of America was held at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, on Saturday, May 4, 2019. Presentations given during the associated symposium "Plurilingualism and Visibile Parlare" are available as a
    playlist
    on the Society's
    YouTube channel
    (note: due to technical difficulties, recordings of some presentations are not available).
  • The 136th Annual Meeting of the Dante Society of America was held at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, on Saturday, May 5, 2018. Presentations given during the associated symposium "'Come il baccialier': Questioning and Professing Dante" are available as a
    playlist
    on the Society's
    YouTube channel.
  • The 135th Annual Meeting of the Dante Society of America was held at the University of Oregon on Saturday, May 6, 2017. Presentations given during the associated symposium "Translation in Dante / Dante in Translation" are available as a playlist
    on the Society's YouTube channel.

Past Meetings and Events

A listing of meetings and events sponsored by the Dante Society in previous years is available here.

Minutes and agenda for the Society's annual membership meetings since 2014 may be found under "About the Society."