Sean Tingle

Sean Tingle is an Instructor, Associate Curriculum Lead, and Faculty Liaison in the Writers’ Studio, a fully online first-year composition program in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. They primarily teach Advanced First-Year Composition (ENG 105) and mentor Writing Mentors—undergraduate and graduate peer tutors who support students through Writing Studio’s course-embedded tutoring model. Over more than a decade with the program, Sean has contributed extensively to curriculum development, faculty support, instructional design, and the evolution of online writing pedagogy at scale.

Sean’s teaching, research, and professional interests center on online student success and retention; accessible and inclusive instructional design; faculty presence and identity in digital learning environments; mentorship of students, Writing Mentors, and colleagues; active and multimodal learning; transfer of knowledge across contexts; and real-world, community-oriented writing practices. Their recent work includes accessibility-focused curriculum and resource development through the Teach Access Fellowship and the Fellows for Accessible Media Program, where they created instructional materials now used internationally.

Sean is also deeply engaged in pedagogical innovation involving artificial intelligence. They have developed multiple AI-supported tools—including Write Steps and Voice Studio—to enhance student engagement, improve instructional consistency, and support large-scale program operations within the Writers’ Studio. Their work in this area includes collaboration with ASU’s AI Innovation Challenge, the Writers’ Studio AI Voicing Initiative, and CISA’s AI Literacy efforts.

In addition to teaching composition, Sean has taught Technical Writing, Developmental Writing, and several Humanities courses, including Introduction to Cinema, Contemporary Cinema, Multicultural Folktales, Popular Culture, Contemporary Humanities, Hispanic Film, and an Honors Forum. Their interdisciplinary background informs a creative, relational, and human-centered teaching approach that invites students to explore new perspectives and make meaningful connections between academic writing and lived experience.

Sean is currently pursuing an EdD in Leadership and Innovation at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, where their emerging problem of practice focuses on supporting faculty identity, engagement, and pedagogical confidence in large-scale online writing programs during a time of significant technological and institutional change. They hope to strengthen the connections between contemporary research and the Writers’ Studio’s ongoing refinement and redesign efforts.

Outside of academia, Sean enjoys traveling around the world, learning from new cultures and communities, and experiencing landscapes through hiking, climbing, cycling, and light-aircraft exploration. One day, they also hope to visit space.