The New Chaucer Society is a professional academic organization dedicated to the study of

Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for ''The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He wa ...

and the

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, founded in 1979. Its predecessor, the original Chaucer Society, had been founded by

Frederick James Furnivall Frederick James Furnivall (4 February 1825 – 2 July 1910) was an English philologist, best known as one of the co-creators of the ''New English Dictionary''. He founded a number of learned societies on early English literature and made pione ...

in 1868 and had closed in 1912. It is based at the

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. The society publishes an annual journal, ''Studies in the Age of Chaucer''. The society also organizes a biennial international congress and supports the ''Chaucer Bibliography Online''.Paul R. Burden, ''A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites'', (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010), 43. 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.

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''Studies in the Age of Chaucer''
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