Mera Joan Flaumenhaft (née Oxenhorn, April 28, 1945 - December 30, 2018[1]) was an American academic and translator who taught at St. John's College, Annapolis MD.[2] Her translation of Niccolò Machiavelli's Mandragola is widely used in college courses throughout the country.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago in 1966, before moving on to get a Master of Arts (1967) and the Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970.[9] where her dissertation was entitled "Politics and Technique in the Plays of John Arden". While at the University of Pennsylvania she was both a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a University of Pennsylvania Foundation Fellow.[9] She was also an assistant professor of English at Anne Arundel Community College. She was the author of "The Civic Spectacle: Essays on Drama and Community" and "Priam the Patriarch, his City and his Sons". She was married to the political scientist Harvey Flaumenhaft.[10] She was the daughter of the educator and author Joseph Oxenhorn and the sister of the scholar and author Harvey Oxenhorn.