Jenny Strauss Clay is the William R. Kenan, Jr.
Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.
After completing studies at Reed College and the University of Chicago, Strauss Clay completed her doctorate at the University of Washington.
[1] She is currently a member of the Nominating Committee of the Society for Classical Studies (formerly the American Philological Association), until 2018.
[3] She married the classicist Diskin Clay [de] in 1963; the marriage ended in 1977.