Marilyn B. Skinner

Marilyn B. Skinner is Professor Emerita of Classics at the University of Arizona. Described as "one of the most sophisticated and accomplished classical scholars today", she specialises in ancient sexualities, gender, feminist theory, and classical poetry, particularly from the Roman Republic and Augustan age.

Career Skinner received her PhD from Stanford University in 1977. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Catullus' Passer: The Arrangement of the Book of Polymetric Poems. This was published as a monograph by Arno Press in 1981. Skinner began her career at Northern Illinois University before moving to the University of Arizona, where she taught 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, an aristocratic Roman woman of the ancient family of Claudii who lived in the first century BCE.