Susan C Jarratt

Biographic Data

ID5423360
NAMESusan C Jarratt
GIVEN NAMESSusan C
FAMILY NAMEJarratt
SIGNATUREJARRATT S C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Irvine
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The Battles of Texas: Adjuncts, Composition, and Culture Wars at UT Austin, by Nate Kreuter and Mark Garrett Longaker

    Mark Longaker, David Fleming et al.ARTICLEJournal for the History of Rhetoric2026

    One of the surprises of the history of higher education in the United States is that, after World War II, when the undergraduate project could have moved wholly in the direction of specialized knowledge and technical job training, it did not. Instead, the 1940s and 1950s were a golden age for “general education,” common coursework for students’ holistic development. Few disciplines benefited more from this state of affairs than did English; at ma…

  • Chain of Gold: Greek Rhetoric in the Roman Empire

    Susan C JarrattBOOKChain of Gold2019

  • An Imperial Anti-Sublime: Aristides’ Roman Oration ( or. 26)

    Susan C JarrattCHAPTERAelius Aristide Ecrivain2016

    This essay argues that Homeric figures in Aristides’ grand encomium of Rome generate a strong undercurrent of disaffection. Although his many visual references – an optics of empire – suggest a magnitude and vastness characteristic of the sublime, a number of odd allusions to the epics create a sense of illegitimacy and desperation, along with an eerie, stifling homogeneity. My contention is that Aristides ultimately produces something like a neg…

  • Barbarianism and Its Discontents

    Susan C JarrattARTICLEComparative Literature Studies2015

    In this innovative study of twentieth- and twenty-first century fiction, art, and political discourse, Maria Boletsi inquires into the category of the “barbarian,” asking not who is a barbarian but rather what kinds of critical work are performed when the terms “barbarian” or “barbarism” are invoked. A comparatist at Leiden University, Boletsi seeks to draw out the positive potential in a very ancient cultural term most often used as a negative g…

  • The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition

    Jeanne Fahnestock, Steven Mailloux et al.BOOKViability of the Rhetorical…2012

  • A Human Measure: Ancient Rhetoric, Twenty-first-Century Loss

    Susan C JarrattCHAPTERViability of the Rhetorical…2012

  • Sophistopolis as Cosmopolis: Reading Postclassical Greek Rhetoric

    Susan C JarrattARTICLEAdvances in the History of Rhetoric2011References: 17

    This article examines the interplay between the Stoic concept of cosmopolis and Greek rhetorical discourses of the polis in the Roman imperial period. D. A. Russell's “Sophistopolis” (from Greek Declamation, 1983) and Doyne Dawson's work on utopian political theory (1992) serve as points of departure for developing a method of reading the political in Second Sophistic rhetoric. The text under examination is a major first-century oration: Dio Chry…

  • Classics and Counterpublics in Nineteenth-Century Historically Black Colleges

    Susan C JarrattARTICLECollege English2009

    In the post-Civil War United States, several historically black colleges gave a central role to classical rhetoric in their curricula, and many of their students used its concepts to develop a distinctly black, oppositional public sphere.

  • Transnational identifications: Biliterate writers in a first-year humanities course

    Open AccessSusan C Jarratt, Elizabeth Losh et al.ARTICLEJournal of Second Language Writing2006References: 3

  • Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured

    R L S Evans, Susan C JarrattARTICLEThe Classical World1992

  • The First Sophists and Feminism: Discourses of the “Other”

    Open AccessSusan C JarrattARTICLEHypatia1990Cited by: 1References: 2

    In this essay, I explore the parallel between the historical exclusions of rhetoric from philosophy and of women from fields of rational discourse. After considering the usefulness and limitations of deconstruction for exposing marginalization by hierarchical systems, I explore links between texts of the sophists and feminist proposals for rewriting/rereading history by Cixous, Spivak, and others. I conclude that sophistic rhetoric offers a flexi…

  • Language Is Sermonic: Richard Weaver on the Nature of Rhetoric

    Susan C Jarratt, Richard L Johannesen et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1986