Professor Stamps, along with Professor Daniel Harnish, teaches the following courses as part of °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ's upcoming certificate program in American Sign Language, which certificate is similar to a minor:
- ASL 101 Introduction to American Sign Language
- ASL 102 Introduction to American Sign Language
- ASL 201 Intermediate American Sign Language
- ASL 301 Deaf Culture
- ASL 302 Deaf Community Involvement
While his research in recent years has focused primarily on how the war in Ukraine is impacting the Deaf community in Ukraine and influencing Ukrainian Sign Language, Professor Stamps is also interested in expanding research into some of the unique and yet unexplored features of sign languages including the following areas of focus:
- 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 and their relation to taboo topics across languages
- Left-handedness and signing number ranges and double letters in ASL
- Applying Dr. Stephen Krashen's hypotheses on Comprehensible Input to teach languages more effectively than traditional instruction
Professor Stamps completed a Bachelor's degree in English Literature at Brigham Young University-Hawaii in 2001 and earned his Master's degree in Education at Portland State University in 2008.
In addition to teaching at °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ since 2016, he has taught American Sign Language in high school for 16 years and at Portland State University, as well as English in Japan and Poland. He has taught English, Japanese, and ASL and is a student of Norwegian, Ukrainian, and ancient Egyptian.
In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, travel, Samoan fire knife dancing, and geometry-based philosophy.