Amy Richlin
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December 12, 1951
Amy Richlin | |
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| Born | Amy Ellen Richlin December 12, 1951 |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Known for | Classicist and professor |
Amy Ellen Richlin (born December 12, 1951) is a professor in the Department of Classics at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Her areas of specialization include Latin literature, the history of sexuality, and feminist theory.[1]
Richlin was born in Hackensack, New Jersey on December 12, 1951, to Samuel Richlin and Sylvia Richlin. Her grandparents all immigrated to the US from Lithuania and Belarus. Her father studied at the Eastman School of Music, where he was close friends with Alec Wilder, but worked afterwards as a kosher butcher. Richlin's mother worked as a typist and secretary, most notably to Manie Sacks.
Academic career
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".[4] She taught at Rutgers University (1977–1979), Dartmouth College (1979–1982), Lehigh University (1982–1989), and the University of Southern California (1989–2005), before moving to the University of California at Los Angeles.[5] She retired in 2022 from the University of California at Los Angeles after 45 years of teaching.[6]
