Jeanine Staples
Jeanine Staples
jms1098@psu.edu
Asst. Prof. of Education, SECED, Language and Literacy Education
Jeanine Staples' research program includes critical explorations of the ways media, popular culture, language, and technology intersect adolescent literacies in multiple teaching/learning contexts. As a new literacy theorist and practitioner, her work functions primarily from post-structural, narrative, ethnographic standpoints. She is committed to affecting meaningful change in the preparation and education of literacy teachers both in-and outside-of-schools, particularly as they relate to disengaged students of color in urban areas. Jeanine is the recipient of the 2005 Ralph C. Preston Award for Scholarship in Teaching and Literacy Research in the Service of Social Justice. In 2007 she was named a Distinguished Educator in the State of Pennsylvania by Dr. Gerald L. Zahorchack, the Secretary of Education under Governor Edward G. Rendell. Most recently she was named a GATE Fellow in Teacher Preparation and Research. Jeanine's latest research is forthcoming in Educational Action Research, Pedagogy, Culture and Society, English Journal, and English Leadership Quarterly and The International Journal of Learning. Her current projects include a focus on the growing importance of assessing adolescents' (new) literacies, young adults' urban fiction texts, post 9/11-literacies, the emotive and spiritual nature of new literacies, and linguistic violence.
