Dr. Alison Keith

Biography

Alison Keith received a BA Honours in Classics from the University of Alberta and completed her MA and PhD in Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. She has written extensively on the intersection of gender and genre in Latin literature, authoring books on Ovid (1992), Propertius (2008), and Latin epic (2000, 2012), and has contributed to the 'Understanding Classics' series published by Bloomsbury Academic (2020). Her current projects include monographs on Latin literature and Roman Epicureanism, a biography of the poet Sulpicia, and commentary on the fourth book of Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses'. She has taught at the University of Toronto since 1988 and holds cross-appointments at the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Women and Gender Studies Institute. Alison has held fellowships at Clare Hall, Cambridge, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Germany, and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. She has served as Editor of 'Phoenix', the journal of the Classical Association of Canada, from 2002 to 2007, as President of the Classical Association of Canada from 2010 to 2012, and as Chair of the U of T Department of Classics from 2007 to 2013 (Acting in 2016-2017). She is currently the Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto and Co-Editor of the 'Phoenix Supplementary Series'.

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