Tom Deans teaches at the University of Connecticut and directs the University Writing Center. He has written two books, Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition and Writing and Community Action: A Service-Learning Rhetoric and Reader. He also likes to think, teach and write about American pragmatism, composition theory, rhetoric, Shakespeare, writing across the disciplines, and prose style. He was part of launching Reflections through the CCCC Committee on Service-Learning and Community Literacy and has been involved with it ever since.