Phillip Arrington is Professor Emeritus of English and Rhetoric at Eastern Michigan University and is the author of the e-novel The Serpent's Sage (2013) and Rhetoric's Agons (2008).Phillip Arrington is Professor Emeritus of English and Rhetoric at Eastern Michigan University and is the author of the e-novel The Serpent's Sage (2013) and Rhetoric's Agons (2008).