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.
Her doctoral thesis was entitled Catullus' Passer: The Arrangement of the Book of Polymetric Poems.
Skinner has published widely on Catullus, gender and sexuality in the ancient world.
[3] 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.