Susan Jarratt

Susan Jarratt is the professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. In addition, she earned a Ph.D. in University of Texas at Austin. Susan Jarratt's interests are ancient Greek and Roman rhetoric, and contemporary rhetoric and writing, and feminist theory. Jarratt has written the book Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured. And she co-edited the book Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words. Susan Jarratt's book Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured contains several good ideas about history and historiography, and it offers an interesting and inspiring writing pedagogy. Susan Jarratt's contribution is very important because she creates a new angle to see contemporary social issues, including the orality/literacy debate, and feminist writing. Also, she finds in the sophists a more progressive charter for teachers and scholars of reading and writing.