In Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves / Monstrous Others, editors Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi weave together a collection that examines “youth culture…
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In Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture, Derritt Mason uses multiple forms of queer young adult (YA) media as a lens through which…
Comments closedIn ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy (2020), Cristina Herrera focuses on the previously overlooked intersection of racial, gender, and intellectual identity…
Comments closedIntroduction This feminist cross-reading of a Nancy Drew “smutty” fanfiction story emerges from our shared interest in literacy education, as well as our respective interests…
Comments closedIn Hit and Run Holiday (1986), iconic teen sleuth Nancy Drew and her gal pals George and Bess meet up with a friend in Fort…
Comments closedIntroduction Media viewing practices have changed drastically in the last two decades with audiences no longer having to wait for television episodes to be aired.…
Comments closedThis article focuses on Black Young Adult (YA) romance, but I start by thinking about two snapshots of popular culture. Snapshot One is the rise…
Comments closedIntroduction When feminist scholars employ the terms “compulsory heterosexuality” or “compulsory sexuality” they are usually doing so in reference to queer persons or communities who…
Comments closedRather than presenting YA series romance as a unified category, this special issue considers it as a site of continuous negotiation. Anyone who grew up…
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