Alison Keith
Keith at the FIEC/CA Conference July 2019
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]

Career

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 2002-2007 she served as editor of Phoenix, Journal of the Classical Association of Canada,^[8] and from 2010-2012 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

• 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.

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