Writing in Response
Matthew Parfitt (Ph.D., Boston College) is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Chair of the Division of Rhetoric at Boston University’s College of General Studies.  In 2002 he received the Peyton Richter Award for interdisciplinary teaching. He is coeditor ofConflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom—And What Instructors Can Do About ThemandCultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past.