Susan Jarratt is professor emerita of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
Her interests include ancient Greek and Roman rhetoric, feminist theory, historiography, and contemporary rhetoric and writing.
She is a past president of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric.
Her publications include Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured (1991) and "Classics and Counterpublics in Nineteenth-Century Historically Black Colleges" (2009), which won the NCTE Richard C. Ohmann Award for Outstanding Article in College English.
[1] She also co-edited the book Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words (1998) with Lynn Worsham.