The Oxford Handbook of Young Adult Literature

Victor Malo-Juvera is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His scholarship is wide ranging and includes editing seven books of literary criticism and pedagogy on young adult literature, and numerous empirical studies which have employed quantitative, mixed methods, and qualitative designs. He is currently on the editorial board of English Journal and Study and Scrutiny: Research in Young Adult Literature. He has previously served on the executive board of the Adolescent Literature Assembly of NCTE and as the chair of the English Language Arts Teacher Educators Commission on the Study and Teaching of Adolescent Literature.Crag Hill's research focuses on the production and consumption of various literatures by/for adolescents, in and out of school contexts. His collaboration with scholars, graduate students, and teachers in many different contexts in the US and abroad fosters critical dialogue on the impact of these literatures on the understanding of race, class, sexuality, and gender identity. His editorial work with Study & Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature, which he co-founded in 2015, endeavors to expand the critical and empirical study of young adult literature to enhance the understanding of the field.

• 1: Chris Crowe: A History of Young Adult Literature 2: Karen Coats: The Coming-of-Age Narrative in Young Adult Literature 3: Sean P. Connors: Critiquing Neoliberal Representations of Government in YA Dystopian Fiction 4: Stephanie R. Toliver: Afrofuturism's Answer to Armageddon: Black Speculation in the Afterlife of Slavery 5: Miranda A. Green-Barteet: Nonnormative Girls in YA Sci-Fi 6: Jon Ostenson: The Ideologies of War in Young Adult Literature 7: Rachel Dean-Ruzicka: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Young Adult Holocaust Literature 8: Tricia Clasen: Changing the Scripts: An Overview of Gender and Romance in Young Adult Literature 9: Kim Wilson: The Problem of Presentism: An Exploration of How YA Historical Fiction Positions Readers to Understand the Past 10: Jason J. Griffith: Youth Truth: Shifts, Trends, and Possibilities in Memoir, Biography, and Other Young Adult Nonfiction 11: Eric L Tribunella: Trauma, Distorted Reality, and Youth 12: Michelle M. Falter: Good Grief: A Hopeful Look at Some "Sick Lit" 13: Wendy J. Glenn: Connection, Healing, and Patriarchal Disruption in a Community of Women Responding to Sexual Violence 14: Clare C. Echterling: Intergenerational Justice and Young Adult Climate Literature 15: Kia Jane Richmond and Elsie Lindy Olan: Digital Media/Social Platforms and Mental Illness in Young Adult Literature 16: Nicole Markoti'c: Dumbfoundings: Pronouncing The Mute Protagonist in YA Novels 17: Carissa Turner Smith: Postsecular Performativity in Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Thief Series 18: Melanie Hundley: The Young Adult Verse Novel: Marching to Its Own Beat 19: Jason DeHart: Memory and Nostalgia in Young Adult and New Adult Comics 20: Shanetia P. Clark: "This Joy that I Have": Black Joy as Intentional, Celebratory Expressions of Hope and Expectations in Black Young Adult Literature 21: R. Joseph Rodríguez: "Yearning to see themselves": Latinx Adolescents and Storytelling Scribes 22: René Saldaña, Jr.: Degollado's Throw: Nepantla, A New Name, A New Self 23: Mandy Suhr-Sytsma and Celeste Trimble: The Prism Effect in Contemporary Indigenous YA Fiction 24: Ymitri Mathison: To Pass or Not to Pass as South Asian: Reinventing Whiteness in South Asian American Young Adult Fiction 25: Silindiwe Sibanda: Cookie Cutter Blacks: Stereotypes of Black Characters in South African Youth Fiction 26: Nadia El Kholy: Arabic Young Adult Fiction: Voices of Resistance 27: Troy Potter: The Personal is Political: Challenging Narratives of Detention and Asylum in Australian Adolescent Fiction 28: Sara Van den Bossche and Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer: Developing a Sense of Belonging: Young People with a Migrant Background in Dutch YA Literature 29: Caryn Kunz Lesuma: Celebrating 'Afakasi Identity for Pasifika Youth in Lani Wendt Young's Teles=a Universe Pacific Rim/Oceania 30: Angel Daniel Matos: Queer Young Adult Literature and the Politics of (Un)Happiness 31: Tom Sandercock: Emerging Subjects: Trans Young Adult Literature 32: Alecia Marie Magnifico, Karis Jones, and Jayne C. Lammers: The Social Genres and Networked Practices of Fan Fiction Writing 33: Ricki Ginsberg and Antero Garcia: Popular Culture: The Classically (White, Male) Treasured from Page to Screen to Page 34: James Blasingame: The Stories Behind the Stories: How the Young Adult Publishing Industry Evolved from Colonizing Regulator to Equity and Inclusion Champion 35: Michael Cart: Me Me Me Me Me: My Life with YA Awards, Prizes, and Best Lists 36: Lisa Scherff: Fascism, Censorship, and Young Adult Literature 37: Janine J. Darragh and Ashley Boyd: A Content Analysis of Research in Young Adult Literature 38: Sandra Abrams and Mary Beth Schaefer: Adolescent Voices, Qualitative Tensions, and YA Literature: Reimagining Child-Parent Research for Classroom Co-Inquiry 39: Hannah R. Gerber and Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie: Mixed Methods Research with Young Adult Literature: Using the Ontological Imperative Framework

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