Marcia Harvey Lindgren received a bachelor’s degree in education from Southern Connecticut State University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in classics from The University of Iowa. She served for ten years as an assistant to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at The University of Iowa, during which time she also taught courses in the Department of Classics. Since 2000 she has been teaching and directing the Latin program in the Department of Classics. Her interests include pedagogy, Roman poetry, women and gender in antiquity, and promoting the study of classical languages.