Rate My Professor Samantha NeCamp

Samantha NeCamp is an associate professor of English and co-director of composition in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. She earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Louisville in 2011, her M.A. in English from the University of Kentucky in 2006, and her B.A. in English from the University of Kentucky in 2004. Earlier in her career, NeCamp served as an assistant professor of English at Midway College, where she taught first-year composition and basic writing.

NeCamp's research specializations and academic interests encompass literacy practices in Appalachia, community writing and historical newspaper archives, schooling and stereotypes of Appalachian illiteracy, adult literacy education and Americanization programs, multilingual composition scholarship, translingual norms, and Global Englishes. Her major publications include the books Adult Literacy and American Identity: The Moonlight Schools and Americanization Programs (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), which analyzes the intersections of literacy initiatives and national identity formation, and Literacy in the Mountains: Community, Newspapers, and Writing in Appalachia (University Press of Kentucky, 2020), which uncovers rich literacy traditions through archival sources to challenge persistent stereotypes. Key peer-reviewed articles feature 'Recognizing and Disrupting Immappancy in Scholarship and Pedagogy' co-authored with Lisa Arnold and Vanessa Kraemer Sohan (Pedagogy, 2015), 'Toward a Multilingual Composition Scholarship: From English Only to a Translingual Norm' with Bruce Horner and Christiane Donahue (College Composition and Communication, 2011), 'The Hazel Green Herald and the Idea of Appalachia' (Journal of Appalachian Studies, 2011), and contributions to bibliographies on global Englishes (WPA: Writing Program Administration, 2011). She co-edited Working with and against Shared Curricula: Perspectives from College Writing Teachers and Administrators with Connie Kendall Theado (Peter Lang, 2023). NeCamp's scholarship impacts the field of rhetoric and composition by advancing translingual pedagogies, historicizing literacy narratives, and promoting inclusive approaches to writing instruction across diverse linguistic contexts.