Alison Keith | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Alberta; University of Michigan |
Thesis | The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.531-835 (1988) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Institutions | University of Toronto |
Notable works | Engendering Rome:Women in Latin Epic |
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 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]
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