{{Infobox academic |honorific_prefix = |image = Alison Keith FIECCA2019.jpg |caption = Keith at the FIEC/CA Conference July 2019 |birth_date = |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |nationality = |occupation = |spouse = |alma_mater = University of Alberta; University of Michigan |thesis_title = The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.531-835 |thesis_year = 1988 |discipline = Classics |workplaces = University of Toronto |doctoral_students = |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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vic.utoronto.ca/academics/keith.htm|title=prof. alison keith|website=www.vic.utoronto.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-11-23}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://classics.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/alison-keith/|title=Alison Keith {{!}} Department of ClassicsDepartment of Classics|website=classics.utoronto.ca|language=en-CA|access-date=2018-11-23|archive-date=2018-11-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123200900/http://classics.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/alison-keith/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cac-scec.ca/wordpress/award-of-merit/prof-allison-keith/|title=Prof. Alison Keith {{!}} The Classical Association of Canada / La Société canadienne des études classiques|website=cac-scec.ca|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-24}}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
== 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).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://classics.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/alison-keith/|title=Alison Keith {{!}} Department of ClassicsDepartment of Classics|website=classics.utoronto.ca|language=en-CA|access-date=2018-11-23|archive-date=2018-11-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123200900/http://classics.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/alison-keith/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her doctoral thesis was entitled ''The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.531-835''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/002161116?query=Alison+Keith&library=All+Libraries&sort=date_asc|title=U-M Library Search|website=search.lib.umich.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-11-24}}</ref> 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).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vic.utoronto.ca/academics/keith.htm|title=prof. alison keith|website=www.vic.utoronto.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-11-23}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cac-scec.ca/wordpress/award-of-merit/prof-allison-keith/|title=Prof. Alison Keith {{!}} The Classical Association of Canada / La Société canadienne des études classiques|website=cac-scec.ca|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-23}}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> From 2002 to 2007 she served as editor of ''Phoenix, Journal of the Classical Association of Canada'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vic.utoronto.ca/academics/keith.htm|title=prof. alison keith|website=www.vic.utoronto.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-11-23}}</ref> and from 2010 to 2012 was President of the Classical Association of Canada.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cac-scec.ca/wordpress/award-of-merit/prof-allison-keith/|title=Prof. Alison Keith {{!}} The Classical Association of Canada / La Société canadienne des études classiques|website=cac-scec.ca|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-23}}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cac-scec.ca/wordpress/award-of-merit/prof-allison-keith/|title=Prof. Alison Keith {{!}} The Classical Association of Canada / La Société canadienne des études classiques|website=cac-scec.ca|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-23}}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Since 2016 she has served on the board of directors of the Society for Classical Studies.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://classicalstudies.org/about-scs/leadership/directors|title=Board of Directors|date=2014-10-23|work=Society for Classical Studies|access-date=2018-11-23}}</ref> In 2017 she won the Leadership Award from the Women's Classical Caucus of the Society for Classical Studies<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://wccaucus.org/awards/awards-history/|title=LIST OF PAST WINNERS|date=2011-09-01|access-date=2019-05-19|language=en-US}}</ref> and was also appointed Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://boundless.utoronto.ca/news/u-of-ts-jackman-humanities-institute-celebrates-10-years-welcomes-new-director/|title=U of T's Jackman Humanities Institute celebrates 10 years, welcomes new director|website=boundless.utoronto.ca|language=en|access-date=2019-05-19}}</ref> Keith is a key-note speaker at the Classical Association Conference 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fiec2019.org/programme/|title=Plenary lectures « FIEC / CA 2019|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-05}}</ref>
== 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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