Jeanine Staples is Associate Professor of Literacy and Language, African American Studies, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. As an educational anthropologist, she focuses on dismantling supremacist patriarchies through research, teaching, and coaching. As a sociocultural literacist, she explores personal and public voices and stories to solve personal and public problems. She accomplishes these objectives by researching the evolutionary nature and function of new literacies and texts through the discourses of narrative research. Her work exposes the foundations of various personal and social ills such as racism, sexism, and abelism; it also provides a means for curing those ills. For more on the intersectionalities she explores, see her latest book, The Revelations of Asher: Towards Supreme Love in Self (Peter Lang, 2016) and her acclaimed 2014 TEDx talk: “How to Die Peacefully.”  Dr. Staples earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature and Urban Education from Howard University, her Master’s degree in Teaching and Curriculum from Harvard University, and her Doctorate in Reading/Writing/Literacy, with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania.