Fredrick Stamps

Fredrick Stamps, MEd, is a Professor of American Sign Language at Pacific University since 2016. He teaches courses including ASL 101-302 and Deaf Culture as part of the university's certificate program in ASL, which functions similarly to a minor.

His research focuses on the impact of the Ukraine war on the Deaf community and unique features of sign languages, such as:

• Why sign languages lack widely-used written forms
• The six-dimensional nature of sign languages
• Variance in ASL
• Absent referents and directionality in mirrored songs in ASL
• Obscenities and euphemisms across languages
• Left-handedness and signing number ranges in ASL
• Application of Dr. Stephen Krashen's Comprehensible Input hypotheses to language education

He holds a Bachelor's degree in English Literature from Brigham Young University-Hawaii (2001) and a Master's degree in Education from Portland State University (2008). Beyond Pacific University, he has taught ASL at high schools, Portland State University, and English in Japan and Poland. He is also a student of Norwegian, Ukrainian, and ancient Egyptian.

Personal interests include family time, travel, Samoan fire knife dancing, and geometry-based philosophy.