Maggie Kilgour

Margaret "Maggie" Kilgour FRSC (born 1957) is a Molson professor of English Language and Literature at McGill University. In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Professor

Maggie Kilgour

FRSC
Born (1957-01-09) January 9, 1957
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Academic background
EducationB.A., University of Toronto
PhD, Yale University
ThesisIngestion as Metaphor and Literary Technique in Rabelais, Milton, Burton, Ruskin, and Northorp Frye (1986)
Academic work
DisciplineLiterature
Sub-disciplineRenaissance European literature
Gothic
InstitutionsMcGill University

Education

Kilgour earned her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Toronto and her PhD at Yale 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."[2]

Career

Kilgour joined the faculty at McGill University as an English professor. She later served as the department's director of graduate studies. In 1999, Kilgour was promoted to chair of the Department of English.[3] That year, she publicly advocated for the department to recruit new faculty members, noting how the department hand shrunk to 27 professors.[4] From 2006 to 2008, Kilgour also sat as a member of McGill's senate.[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.[6]

In 2012, her book "Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid" was awarded the James Holly Hanford Award by The Milton Society of America.[7] 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.[8] She was also accepted as an alternate chair on the University Tenure Committee for the Faculty of Arts until 2015.[9][10]

In 2013, Kilgour collaborated with Elena Lombardi to compose a book of essays regarding Dantean scholars.[11]

In response to a perceived lack of interest and budget cuts to the Faculty of Arts in 2014, Kilgour organized a four-part discussion series on the importance of a humanities education and a $500 essay competition to encourage students to enroll in the humanities.[12][13] Since then, she has organized an annual round table discussion series called "McGill for Humanities" to help students understand the importance of a humanities education and find careers.[14]

In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[15][16] The following year, she earned a visiting fellowship to All Souls College Oxford.[17] While there, she studied the relationship between Milton and Shakespeare and began another book titled "Fine Excess: Milton's Poetical Thought".[18]

She sits on the editorial board of the annual "Milton Studies Journal."[19][20]

Publications

The following is a list of publications:[21]

  • The Rise of the gothic novel (1995)
  • Dantean Dialogues: Engaging with the Legacy of Amilcare Iannucci (2013)
  • Milton and the metamorphosis of Ovid (2014)
  • From communion to cannibalism (2016)

References
  1. "Maggie Kilgour". mcgill.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  2. "Margaret Ferguson". english.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  3. "On Campus". reporter-archive.mcgill.ca. February 25, 1999. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  4. McCabe, Daniel (September 9, 1999). "A forecast for the future". reporter-archive.mcgill.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  5. "FACULTY OF SCIENCE NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT 2007-2008" (PDF). mcgill.ca. p. 2. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  6. McDevitt, Neale (November 19, 2008). "Teaching award winners put the emphasis on students". reporter.mcgill.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  7. "James Holly Hanford Award Recipients (Book)". miltonsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  8. Cook, Trevor (Spring 2014). "Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid by Maggie Kilgour (review)". University of Toronto Quarterly. 83: 451–452.
  9. "Committee Members 2012-13". mcgill.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  10. "Report of the Nominating Committee" (PDF). mcgill.ca. April 1, 2014. p. 7. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
  11. Gaimari, Giulia (Summer 2016). "Dantean Dialogues: Engaging with the Legacy of Amilcare Iannucci ed. by Maggie Kilgour and Elena Lombardi (review)". University of Toronto Quarterly. 85: 401–402. doi:10.3138/utq.85.3.401. S2CID 164522013.
  12. Atack, Christopher (March 31, 2014). "April 1: Why the Humanities matter". reporter.mcgill.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  13. Berger, Max (April 8, 2014). "Professors, students defend value of studying the humanities". The McGill Tribune. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  14. "About". mcgillforhumanities.com. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  15. "Félicitations aux récipiendaires Mcgillois de la société royale du canada pour l'année 2015". mcgill.ca. September 22, 2015. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  16. Thurston, Meaghan (September 8, 2015). "RSC honours 14 McGill researchers and scholars". reporter.mcgill.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  17. "Visiting Fellows 2016 - 2017". asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  18. "Annual Report Summary 31 July 2017". asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  19. "Editorial Board". miltonstudiesjournal.org. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  20. "Milton Studies". muse.jhu.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  21. "au: Kilgour, Maggie". worldcat.org. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
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