Jeanine M. Staples Assistant Professor Department of Special Education 1308 Benjamin Building College Park, MD 20742 Voice: 301-405-6488 staples@umd.edu Specialty Area: Adolescent Literacies & Learning/Media/Urban Studies

Jeanine M. Staples is an Assistant Professor of Education in the Special Education Department of the University of Maryland College Park. She has extensive experience working in urban areas with at risk students of all ages, in addition to pre-service and in-service teachers. Jeanine's scholarship uncovers the relationships that exist between literacies, media, adolescence, and teacher education. She also examines the role of the spirit in literacy acquisition, teaching, and learning. Using critical responsive interpretive frameworks, she examines the ways urban youth of color use and develop literacies over time and the ways their teachers support and facilitate that work.