Alison Keith is a

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who is

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Classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

and

Women's Studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppress ...

at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

, where she has been a Fellow of Victoria University of Toronto since 1989. She is an expert on the relationships between

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and

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, and has published widely on topics including Latin

epic poetry An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants. ...

Ovid Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō (; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the th ...

Propertius Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium and died shortly after 15 BC. Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of ''Elegies'' ('). He was a friend of the poets Gallus a ...

, and Roman dress.

Career

Alison Keith was educated at the

University of Alberta The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherfor ...

, where she gained a BA in Classics. She then studied at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

for her MA (gained in 1984) and

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(in 1988). Her doctoral thesis was entitled ''The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.531-835''. She has taught at the University of Toronto since 1988, during which time she has also held research fellowships at institutions including

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(1994-1995), the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

(1999-2000) and the

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(2007-2008). She was selected as a research fellow of the

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (german: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) is a foundation established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and funded by the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry of Education and Resear ...

in 1999, and in 2012 was elected as a

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of the

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. From 2002-2007 she served as editor of '' Phoenix, Journal of the Classical Association of Canada'', and from 2010-2012 was President of the

Classical Association of Canada The Classical Association of Canada (CAC) (french: La Société canadienne des études classiques (SCEC)) is a national, nonprofit organization with the aim of advancing the study of the civilizations of the Greek and Roman worlds in their Mediter ...

. In 2016 she received the Award of Merit from the

for her services to the study of the classical world in Canada and internationally. Since 2016 she has served on the board of directors of the

Society for Classical Studies The Society for Classical Studies (SCS), formerly known as the American Philological Association (APA) is a non-profit North American scholarly organization devoted to all aspects of Greek and Roman civilization founded in 1869. It is the preemine ...

. In 2017 she won the Leadership Award from the

Women's Classical Caucus The Women's Classical Caucus, Inc. (WCC) is an affiliate of the American Philological Association, the organization for North American scholars and teachers of Greek and Latin language, literature, and culture (known as "classicists"), Greek and R ...

of the

and was also appointed Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. Keith is a key-note speaker at the

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Conference 2019.

Selected publications

* 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

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