Richard Morris earned his PhD in English from Purdue University. He has worked at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois, since 1997, where he teaches composition, reading, and a liberal arts and sciences seminar, working both in the classroom and online. Morris has served as the Director of Composition, Coordinator of LAS 189, and coordinator of the college-wide mentoring program. With Eastern Illinois University, he established an internship that gives master’s students experience in the community college composition classroom. With Michelle Sidler, he published an article in JAC, “Writing in a Post-Berlinian Landscape.”