Margaret "Maggie" Kilgour FRSC (born 1957) is a Molson professor of English Language and Literature at McGill University.
[1] She wrote her dissertation under the title "Ingestion as Metaphor and Literary Technique in Rabelais, Milton, Burton, Ruskin, and Northorp Frye," although it was late republished in 1990 by Princeton University Press as "From Communion to Cannibalism: An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation.
[5] In 2008, while on sabbatical to write a book regarding the Roman poet Ovid, Kilgour was awarded McGill's Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
[8] The book focused on how Renaissance writer John Milton interpreted the Roman poet Ovid's work and the influence it has on subsequent classical traditions.
[10][11] In 2013, Kilgour collaborated with Elena Lombardi to compose a book of essays regarding Dantean scholars.