Sean Kamperman

My research concerns the invisible rhetorical nature of everyday writing and communication. I’m particularly interested in the often unseen power of professional genres—grant proposals, mission statements, brochures, bylaws—to coordinate social relations and influence access to space, power, and resources.  

Accordingly, my teaching and research explore how accessibility is enacted in professional workplaces and knowledge cultures more broadly, with an emphasis on how humans, texts, and technologies interact to co-create accessible working and learning environments. I seek to understand access and disablement as material-discursive processes that take shape through particular kinds of literacy acts and events: policy writing, legislative advocacy, scientific research, and medical coding, to name a few.