Is a humanities professor at Shimer College in Waukegan, Illinois, and a longtime TFF Friend. In 2001–2002 she served as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar (Lecturer in Literature) at Urals Pedagogical University in Russia. She was born in Chicago and has taught and written on religion and the arts, with teaching experience in Russia, China, and Sweden as well as at colleges and universities in the United States. Sklar is also a member of the Cumnor Fellowship (Oxford) and completed her doctorate at Oxford.