{"id":1932,"date":"2014-08-08T11:54:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T11:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2015-05-20T15:41:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T15:41:04","slug":"alumni-profile-victoria-goddard-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/2014\/alumni-profile-victoria-goddard-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Profile\u2014Victoria Goddard (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Writer, Gardener, Jobbing Humanist<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1938 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/people-victoria-goddard-400x309.jpg\" alt=\"victoria goddard\" width=\"400\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/people-victoria-goddard-400x309.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/people-victoria-goddard-160x124.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/people-victoria-goddard-240x186.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/people-victoria-goddard-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/people-victoria-goddard-360x278.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/people-victoria-goddard.jpg 1287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I went to Carleton, sight unseen, with high expectations and I count myself exceedingly fortunate that those expectations were not only met, but surpassed.<\/p>\n<p>I learned Italian so I could study Dante and Greek so I could read Homer, and fell in love with philosophy because of Boethius. After my B.Hum, I completed my M.A. and my Ph.D at the University of Toronto\u2019s Centre for Medieval Studies. My dissertation for my was on \u201cPoetry and Philosophy in Dante and Boethius\u201d \u2013 the unconventional lack of a colon and subtitle, like the topic, very much a product of the College of the Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>I was hired as a Teaching Fellow in the Foundation Year Programme at the University of King\u2019s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When the three year contract ended. I decided it was time to go forth and see a bit more of the world and try my hand at writing. Accordingly, I walked down the length of England in 2013 and published my first novel, Till Human Voices Wake Us, in 2014, and am hard at work contemplating my next adventure, which is likely to be a smallholding in the Maritimes and a few new novels (if interested, please visit <a title=\"victoria goddard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriagoddard.ca\" target=\"_blank\">my website<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>At the College of the Humanities I learned to ask the old questions, and to live always as if they matter \u2013 and in doing so, I learned the courage shown by those, ancient and modern, who try to answer them. In short, I think I can say that my writing, like my life, is shaped by the past, and the College of the Humanities did not only show me those shapes, but also taught me to see.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Victoria Goddard has a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, and is a Writer, Gardener, and Jobbing Humanist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/effrosyniwrites.com\/2015\/05\/18\/interview-with-fantasy-author-victoria-goddard\/\">Blog Interview with Victoria Goddard<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>More about Bachelor of Humanities Alumni<\/h4>\n<p><a title=\"Careers\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/careers\/\">Careers<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Alumni testimonials\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/careers\/alumni-testimonials\/\">Alumni Profiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"linkedin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=6525318&amp;goback=%2Enpv_347849011_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_nav*4responsive*4tab*4profile*4pic_*1&amp;trk=prof-groups-membership-logo\" target=\"_blank\">Linkedin Group for Bachelor of Humanities Alumni<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer, Gardener, Jobbing Humanist I went to Carleton, sight unseen, with high expectations and I count myself exceedingly fortunate that those expectations were not only met, but surpassed. I learned Italian so I could study Dante and Greek so I could read Homer, and fell in love with philosophy because of Boethius. 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