Amy Richlin

Amy Ellen Richlin (born December 12, 1951) is a professor in the Department of Classics at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

Richlin studied at Smith College, then transferred in 1970 to Princeton University, where she was the founding captain of the women's rowing team.

[2][3] She graduated from Princeton in 1973 as part of the first co-ed class to study there and then completed her PhD at Yale University, writing her dissertation on "Sexual Terms and Themes in Roman Satire and Related Genres".

[7] She developed similar themes in collected works including Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome (1992), and Feminist Theory and the Classics (co-edited with Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, 1993).

[1][8] She has publicly cited Australian classical scholar Suzanne Dixon as a great influence in shaping her work on gender politics.