Graduate Advising

Ramona Naddaff

Associate Professor; Head Graduate Advisor; Director, The Art of Writing, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities

Ramona Naddaff’s research and teaching interests encompass the history of ancient rhetorical theory, philosophy and literature, history of philosophy and critical therory, the theory of the novel, and literary censorship. In her book, Exiling the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato’s Republic, Naddaff highlights both the repressive and productive aspects of literary censorship, revealing Plato’s fundamental ambivalence regarding the value of poetic discourse in philosophical and political theory. She continues to write on...