Mathilde Skoie is vice-rector for research and internationalisation (2025-).
Background
Mathilde Skoie is professor of Latin in the Department of philosophy, classics, history of art and ideas (IFIKK) where she has also been head of department (2009-16). From 2019-2025 Mathilde Skoie was Vice dean for research at the Faculty of Humanities. She has been widely engaged in research policy and academic leadership both nationally and internationally. She is currently the leader of the National board of scholarly publishing (NPU) and a member of the Scientific advisory board for the University of Gothenburg. She has taken on several commissions of trust, e.g. chairman of the board of the research centre of excellence RITMO and the Norwegian institute in Rome.
Mathilde Skoie received her Ph.D. in Latin at Reading University (1999), later published as Reading Sulpicia (Oxford University Press 2002). Prior to coming to the University of Oslo she has been a postdoc (Rome scholar) at The British School at Rome funded by the British Academy, a lecturer at the University of Reading and an associate professor at the University of Bergen (Norway). From 2009 she has been part of IFIKK (Department of philosophy, classics, history of art and ideas at the University of Oslo).
As a classicist she has been president of The Norwegian Classical Association (Norsk klassisk forbund) and panel member of the Swedish research council (Vetenskapsrådet). She is used as a referee by international journals such as Arethusa and Classical Philology and member of the editorial board of Klassisk forum. She is an international member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
Research interests
- pastoral poetry
- Roman elegy (in particular Sulpicia)
- reception of Antiquity (currently working on Catiline)
- the history of classical scholarship (in particular the genre of commentaries)
- translation
- the use of modern literary theory in classical philology
- rhetoric
Teaching
Skoie has given courses in Latin literature and language, classical rhetoric and classical civilization and reception of Antiquity. She has also taught general introductory courses to the Faculty of Humanities (ExFac).