Sean Kamperman

Sean Kamperman
  • Assistant Professor

Contact Info

Wescoe Hall, Room 3111

Personal Links

Biography —

Sean Kamperman's teaching and research explore accessible approaches to democratic deliberation and informed decision-making within professional workplaces and knowledge cultures more broadly, with an emphasis on how humans, texts, and digital technologies interact to support access to meaningful communication. Along these lines, his current book project, Genrefying Access, uses the lens of genre studies to explore how professional literacies mediate, and constrain, opportunities for meaningful access in educational and nonprofit settings. Other topics he has written about include intellectual disability, deliberative rhetoric, generative AI technologies in education, and digital mapping.

Education —

Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy, Ohio State University
M.A. in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy, Ohio State University
B.A. in Rhetoric & Writing, University of Texas

Research —

Areas of Research: Professional and technical writing, Community literacy, Disability studies, Critical AI studies, Digital media studies, Rhetorical theory

Teaching —

Teaching Interests

  • Professional and technical writing
  • Disability studies
  • Biomedical and neuroscientific rhetoric
  • Nonprofit writing
  • Digital media composing
  • Qualitative methods
  • AI & writing

Selected Publications —

Kamperman, S. (2024). “Gateways and Anchor Points: The Use of Frames to Amplify Marginalized Voices in Disability Policy Deliberations.” Written Communication, 41(3). 

Kamperman, S. (2020). “Recognizing the Métis of Learners with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities in College Composition.” Disability Studies Quarterly, 40(1). (n.p.).

Conrad, K. & Kamperman, S. (2025). “Building Critical AI Literacy: An Approach to Generative AI.” Thresholds in Education, 48(2). 

Kamperman, S. & Graff, H. (2026). “On ‘AI Literacy’: Inside and Beyond the Rhetorical and Historical Fallacies of a Burgeoning Movement and its Marketing.” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 58(4). 

Grants & Other Funded Activity —

“AI and Digital Literacy: Toward an Inclusive and Empowering Teaching Practice” (Teacher Institute). National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, June 2025. Co-applicant with Kathryn Conrad.