Ramona Naddaff

Ramona Naddaff is a professor in the Rhetoric Department at UC Berkeley, where she specializes in Ancient Rhetoric Theory and the History of Philosophy and Literature. The author of a scholarly monograph, Exiling The Poets; The Production Of Censorship In Plato’s Republic, she has published multiple articles on Plato’s theory of poetry and on literary censorship, among other topics. She is currently finishing a book manuscript on Flaubert’s writing practices and philosophy tentatively entitled, Never Alone: The Making Of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.  Her commitment to undergraduate education led her to found and direct two programs at the Doreen B. Townsend Humanities Center: Course Threads and Art of Writing.  A founding editor of Zone Book, she continues there as an editor of titles in the  humanities and social sciences. She currently serves on the board of Robert Reich’s Inequality Media.