He holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, an MA from California State University at Stanislaus, and a BA from University of California at Berkeley. At Texas Tech, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in web accessibility and disability studies, sound studies, report writing, style, document design, writing for publication, developing instructional materials, and others. Sean is the author of Reading Sounds: Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2015). He has been keenly interested in closed captioning for over a decade and writing about it since 2009. Visit the supplemental website for Reading Sounds (ReadingSounds.net), send Sean an email (sean.zdenek@ttu.edu), or follow him on Twitter (@seanzdenek).