[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] Alison Keith was educated at the University of Alberta, where she gained a BA in Classics.

[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).

[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.