ABSTRACT
Susan C. Jarratt is Professor of Comparative Literature and Campus Writing Coordinator at the University of California at Irvine, where she teaches courses in the histories and theories of rhetoric, feminist theory, and composition pedagogy. Jarratt is perhaps best known for her first book, Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured, and for her edited collection Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words (with Lynn Worsham). Jarratt earned her BA in English with a teaching certificate at the University of Texas in Austin 1971 and taught high school in San Antonio for six years. She earned her MA in English at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1978 and then her PhD in English with a concentration in Rhetoric at UT Austin 1985. She took her first tenure-track job right out of graduate school at Miami University, where she earned tenure (1990) and promotion to full (1997), and served as the Director both of women’s studies and of composition. In 1994, she left Miami to accept the Lillian Radford Chair of Rhetoric and Composition at Texas Christian University, returned to Miami the next year, and then in 2001 she joined the faculty at UCI.
