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 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.