Marilyn B. Skinner is Professor Emerita of

Classics Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

at the

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it ...

. Described as "one of the most sophisticated and accomplished classical scholars today", she specialises in

ancient Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient h ...

sexualities,

gender Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...

, feminist theory, and classical poetry, particularly from the Roman Republic and Augustan age.

Career

Skinner received her PhD from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

in 1977. Her doctoral thesis was entitled ''

Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus (; ), known as Catullus (), was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic. His surviving works remain widely read due to their popularity as teaching tools and because of their personal or sexual themes. Life ...

' Passer: The Arrangement of the Book of Polymetric Poems.'' This was published as a monograph by

Arno Press Arno Press was a Manhattan-based publishing house founded by Arnold Zohn in 1963, specializing in reprinting rare and long out-of-print materials. History Zohn served 48 missions on a bomber crew during World War II, and when he returned home he ...

in 1981. Skinner spent most of her career at the University of Arizona, from 1991 until her retirement. Skinner has published widely on Catullus, gender and sexuality in the ancient world. She published the first full-length biography of

Clodia Metelli Clodia (born Claudia, c. 95 or 94 BC), nicknamed Quadrantaria ("Quarter", from ''quadrantarius'', the price of a visit to the public baths), Nola ("The Unwilling", from the verb ''nolo'', in sarcastic reference to her alleged wantonness), Medea P ...

, an aristocratic Roman woman of the ancient family of Claudii who lived in the first century BCE.

Bibliography

* (edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Marilyn B. Skinner, and Froma I. Zeitlin) ''Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel'' (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012) * ''Clodia Metelli: The Tribune’s Sister'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) * (edited by Ellen Greene and Marilyn B. Skinner) ''The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues'', (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009) * (edited by Marilyn B. Skinner) ''A Companion to Catullus'' (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007) * ''Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture'' (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005) * (edited by David Armstrong, Marilyn K. Skinner, Jeffrey Fish, and Patricia A. Johnston) ''Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans'' (Texas: University of Texas Press, 2004) * ''Catullus in Verona: A Reading of the Elegiac'' Libellus'', Poems 65–116'' (Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2003) * (edited by Marilyn B. Skinner and

Judith P. Hallett Judith P. Hallett is Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Emerita of Classics, having formerly been the Graduate Director at the Department of Classics, University of Maryland. Her research focuses on women, the family, and sexuality in anc ...

) ''Roman Sexualities'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997) * ''Catullus’ Passer: The Arrangement of the Book of Polymetric Poems'' (New York: Arno Press, 1981)

External links

"Listen: Classicist Marilyn B. Skinner Presents the Sixteenth Annual Helen F. North Lecture"
Swarthmore, April 22, 2016.

References

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