Alison Keith

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Alison Keith
Born
💼 Occupation
Title	Professor of Classics and Women's Studies, Medieval Studies and Comparative Literature

Alison Mary Keith is an internationally renowned Professor of Classics and Women's Studies, Medieval Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. She has been a Fellow of Victoria College since 1989 and Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute since 2017. She is notable for her work in the field of Latin literature. Keith has published widely on the interaction between gender and genre in Latin literature and Roman culture and has contributed significantly to the application of feminist studies to Classical Civilisation.

Education

Keith received her BA in Classics with Honours in 1983 from the University of Alberta and completed her MA in Classical Studies at the University of Michigan in 1984. She received her PhD in 1988 from the University of Michigan with a thesis entitled 'The play of fictions: Studies in Ovid, Metamorphoses 2. 531-835'.

Career

In 1988 Keith began a tenure-track position in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto, gaining tenure in 1993 and receiving a promotion to professor in 2003. Between 2007 and 2013 she was the Chair of the Department of Classics and has served as the Editor of Phoenix, Journal of the Classical Association of Canada (2002-07). She currently co-edits the Phoenix Supplementary Series (2008- ) and the subseries Phoenix Studies in Gender (2001-). She was a research fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge (1994-5), Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, in Germany (1999-2000), and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina (2007-2008). She has published prolifically, authoring over fifty articles.

Recognition and awards

In 2012 Keith was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She was the recipient of the Award of Merit of the Classical Association of Canada in 2016 whose organisation she previously served as President (2010-12).

Select bibliography

Books and edited volumes

• The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 2 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992)
• The Golden Bough, The Oaken Cross: The Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba, translation and commentary co-authored with D. Hatch (Chicago: Scholars Press, 1981)
• Jerome, Chrysostom, and Friends: Essays and Translations (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1982)
• Women in the Early Church (Wilmington: M. Glazier, 1983)
• 'Introduction', On Virginity; Against Remarriage, translated by S. R. Shore (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1983) vii-xlii
• The Life of Melania, the Younger: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1984)
• Ascetic Piety and Women's Faith: Essays on Late Ancient Christianity (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1986)
• Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages, co-edited with J. M. Bennett et al. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989)
• The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian Debate (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992)
• Women and Religion: The Original Sourcebook of Women in Christian Thought, edited by E. A. Clark and H. Richardson, with assistant editors G. Brower and R. Styers (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1996)
• St. Augustine on Marriage and Sexuality, edited by E. A. Clark (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1996)
• Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999)
• History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004)
• Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)

Articles and book chapters

• 'John Chrysostom and the "Subintroductae"', Church History, vol. 46, no. 2 (1977) 171-85
• 'Jesus as Hero in the Vergilian "Cento" of Faltonia Betitia Proba', Vergilius, E. A. Clark and D. F. Hatch, no. 27 (1981) 31-9
• 'Ascetic Renunciation and Feminine Advancement: A Paradox of Late Ancient Christianity', Anglican Theological Review 6 (1981) 240-57
• 'Claims on the Bones of Saint Stephen: The Partisans of Melania and Eudocia', Church History, vol. 51, no. 2 (1982) 141-56
• '"Adam's Only Companion": Augustine and the Early Christian Debate on Marriage', Recherches Augustiniennes, 21 (1986) 139-62
• 'The Place of Jerome's Commentary on Ephesians in the Origenist Controversy: The Apokatastasis and Ascetic Ideals', Vigiliae Christianae, vol. 41, no. 2 (1987) 154-71
• 'Foucault, The Fathers, and Sex', Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 56, no. 4 (1988) 619-41
• 'Theory and Practice in Late Ancient Asceticism: Jerome, Chrysostom, and Augustine', Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 5, no. 2 (1989) 25-46
• 'New Perspectives on the Origenist Controversy: Human Embodiment and Ascetic Strategies', Church History, vol. 59, no. 2 (1990) 145-62
• '1990 Presidential Address: Sex, Shame, and Rhetoric: En-Gendering Early Christian Ethics', Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 59, no. 2 (1991) 221-45
• 'Elite Networks and Heresy Accusations: Towards a Social Description of the Origenist Controversy', Semeia 56 (1991) 81-117
• 'Ideology, History, and the Construction of "Woman" in Late Ancient Christianity', Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2 (1994) 155-84
• 'Sane Insanity: Women and Asceticism in Late Ancient Christianity', Medieval Encounters, Vol. 3, Issue 3 (1997) 211 – 230
• 'The Lady Vanishes: Dilemmas of a Feminist Historian after the "Linguistic Turn', Church History, vol. 67, no. 1 (1998) 1-31
• 'Holy Women, Holy Words: Early Christian Women, Social History, and the "Linguistic Turn"', Journal of Early Christian Studies 6 (1998) 413-30
• 'Introduction', Church History, vol. 69, no. 2 (2000) 277-80
• 'Women, Gender, and the Study of Christian History',Church History, vol. 70, no. 3 (2001) 395-426
• 'Engaging Bruce Lincoln', Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, vol. 17, no. 1 (2005) 11-17
• 'The Celibate Bridegroom and His Virginal Brides: Metaphor and the Marriage of Jesus in Early Christian Ascetic Exegesis', Church History, vol. 77, no. 1 (2008) 1-25
• 'From Patristics to Early Christian Studies', Oxford Handbook of Early Christianity, edited by S. Ashbrook Harvey and D. Hunter (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) 7-41
• 'Postcolonial Theory and the Study of Christian History Introduction', Church History, vol. 78, no. 4 (2009) 847-8
• 'The Retrospective Self', The Catholic Historical Review 101.1 (2015) vi-27

External links

• Elizabeth A. Clark, Duke University

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