C Jan SwearingenC. Jan Swearingen, a professor of English emerita at Texas A&M University, is the author of Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and Western Lies, and the editor of Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village. She coedited and cotributed to a special symposium issue of College Composition and Communication titled "Double Trouble: Seeing Chinese Rhetoric through Its Own Lens" and has published widely on classical and religious rhetoric. She received a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her study of rhetoric and religion in colonial Virginia. Read More Read Less