Colin John Starnes is a professor, author, and former President of the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Although he is retired, he still lectures on certain topics in the Foundation Year Programme at King's, including The Divine Comedy.
[1] He replaced Marion Golda Fry and was succeeded by William Barker.
His published works include the book The New Republic: A Commentary on Book I of More's Utopia Showing Its Relation to Plato's Republic (Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1990),[2] and Augustine's Conversion: A Guide to the Argument of Confessions, I-IX.
[3] He contributed a paper on Virgil and Plato to a volume commemorating the philosopher James Doull, and in addition has published a number of articles in Dionysius and elsewhere.