Alison Keith is a classical scholar who is Professor of Classics and Women's Studies at the University of Toronto, where she has been a Fellow of Victoria University of Toronto since 1989.[1] She is an expert on the relationships between gender and genre in Latin literature, and has published widely on topics including Latin epic poetry, Ovid, Propertius, and Roman dress.[2][3]

Alison Keith
Keith at the FIEC/CA Conference July 2019
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Alberta; University of Michigan
ThesisThe Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.531-835 (1988)
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Notable worksEngendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic

Career edit

Alison Keith was educated at the University of Alberta, where she gained a BA in Classics. She then studied at the University of Michigan for her MA (gained in 1984) and PhD (in 1988).[4] Her doctoral thesis was entitled The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.531-835.[5] She has taught at the University of Toronto since 1988, during which time she has also held research fellowships at institutions including Clare Hall, Cambridge (1994-1995), the University of Freiburg (1999-2000) and the National Humanities Center (2007-2008).[6] She was selected as a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1999, and in 2012 was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[7] From 2002 to 2007 she served as editor of Phoenix, Journal of the Classical Association of Canada,[8] and from 2010 to 2012 was President of the Classical Association of Canada.[9] In 2016 she received the Award of Merit from the Classical Association of Canada for her services to the study of the classical world in Canada and internationally.[10] Since 2016 she has served on the board of directors of the Society for Classical Studies.[11] In 2017 she won the Leadership Award from the Women's Classical Caucus of the Society for Classical Studies[12] and was also appointed Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto.[13] Keith is a key-note speaker at the Classical Association Conference 2019.[14]

Selected publications edit

  • Sharrock, Alison and Alison Keith, eds. Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2020
  • Co-editor (with Jacqueline Fabre-Serris), Women and War in Antiquity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
  • Guest Editor, Mouseion 11.3 (2014), In memoriam John William Geyssen.
  • A Latin Epic Reader. Selections from Ten Epics. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2012.
  • Editor, Latin Elegy and Hellenistic Epigram. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011.
  • Propertius, Poet of Love and Leisure. Classical Literature & Society. London: Duckworth, 2008.
  • Co-editor (with Jonathan C. Edmondson) Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
  • Co-editor (with Stephen Rupp) Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007.
  • Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic. Roman Literature and its Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 2. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.

References edit

  1. ^ "prof. alison keith". www.vic.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  2. ^ "Alison Keith | Department of ClassicsDepartment of Classics". classics.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  3. ^ "Prof. Alison Keith | The Classical Association of Canada / La Société canadienne des études classiques". cac-scec.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-24.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "Alison Keith | Department of ClassicsDepartment of Classics". classics.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  5. ^ "U-M Library Search". search.lib.umich.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-24.
  6. ^ "prof. alison keith". www.vic.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  7. ^ "Prof. Alison Keith | The Classical Association of Canada / La Société canadienne des études classiques". cac-scec.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-23.[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ "prof. alison keith". www.vic.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  9. ^ "Prof. Alison Keith | The Classical Association of Canada / La Société canadienne des études classiques". cac-scec.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-23.[permanent dead link]
  10. ^ "Prof. Alison Keith | The Classical Association of Canada / La Société canadienne des études classiques". cac-scec.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-23.[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ "Board of Directors". Society for Classical Studies. 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  12. ^ "LIST OF PAST WINNERS". 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  13. ^ "U of T's Jackman Humanities Institute celebrates 10 years, welcomes new director". boundless.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  14. ^ "Plenary lectures « FIEC / CA 2019". Retrieved 2019-07-05.