Colin Starnes

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Colin John Starnes is a professor, author, and former President of the

Halifax, Nova Scotia
, Canada.

Starnes joined the faculty of King's in 1972, and the

The Divine Comedy. He holds degrees from Bishop's University, Harvard University, McGill University
, and Dalhousie.

Starnes was the President of King's from 1993 until 2003.[1] He replaced Marion Golda Fry and was succeeded by William Barker.

Starnes is an authority on

Saint Augustine and Thomas More. 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.[4]

The civil servant, diplomat, and novelist John Kennett Starnes was his father and his brother is the novelist Patrick Starnes.

References

  1. ^ "History | University of King's College". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2011-06-30.
  2. ISBN 9780889209787
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  3. ISBN 9780889209916
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  4. ^ "Department of Classics".
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