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Susan C. Jarratt
Professor, Comparative Literature
Director, Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Literature

PH.D., University of Texas at Austin
 
Research Interests:
Histories of Rhetoric; Ancient Greek Rhetoric; Rhetorical Theories; Feminist Theory and Pedagogy; Gender and Writing: Writing Program Administration; Composition Pedagogy
 
Research Summary:
Susan Jarratt's interests are ancient Greek and Roman rhetoric, and contemporary rhetoric and writing in universities and public contexts. She is at work on a book about the significance of space and the imperial relationship in ancient Greco-Roman rhetoric. Other work in progress includes a collaboration with Andrea Lunsford, Robert Hariman, LuMing Mao, and Jacqueline Jones Royster in editing the Norton Anthology of Rhetoric and Writing.

She served as Campus Writing Coordinator from 2001-07 and in that capacity has done collaborative research on bilingual writers and undergraduate writing-across-the-curriculum.
 
Selected Publications:
  Books
  Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. Paperback reissue, 1998.

  Edited Books
  Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words. Edited with Lynn Worsham. For Research in Rhetoric and Composition Series. New York: MLA, 1998.

  "Classics and Counterpublics in Nineteenth-Century Historically Black Colleges." Forthcoming (Nov 2009) in College English.
  Journal Articles, Book Chapters, etc.
  "Transnational Identifications: Biliterate Writers in a First-Year Humanities Course," with Elizabeth Losh and David Puente, The Journal of Second Language Writing) 15 (2006): 24-48.
  “Sappho’s Memory.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 32.1 (Winter 2002): 11-43.
  “Beside Ourselves: The Rhetoric of Postcolonial Feminism.” Journal of Advanced Composition 18.1 (1998): 57-75.
  “In Excess: Radical Extensions of Neopragmatism.” Rhetoric, Pragmatism, Sophistry. Ed. Steven Mailloux. Cambridge UP, 1995: 206-27.
 

Contact Information

     Campus Address
     Susan C. Jarratt
University of California, Irvine
320 HIB
Irvine, CA 92697-2650
Mail Code: 2650
     Campus phone: (949) 824-9629
     Campus phone: (949) 824-2916
     Email: sjarratt@uci.edu
 
Date last modified: 04/13/2009
 
 
 
 

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