Queer Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the English Language Arts Curriculum

Paula Greathouse is an associate professor of secondary English Education at Tennessee Tech University. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years. She has received several teaching awards including the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Teacher of Excellence Award.Henry “Cody” Miller is an assistant professor of English education at SUNY Brockport. Prior to that role, he taught high school English in Florida for seven years. He served as the chair of the LGBTQ Advisory Board for the National Council of Teachers of English from 2018-2021. His scholarship has appeared in publications like The English Journal, ALAN Review, English Leadership Quarterly, among others.

Bringing decades of teaching experience to bear, Paula Greathouse and Cody Miller bring forth this second volume on teaching queer young adult literature in English language arts classes. This collection features many recently published young adult texts that tell the stories of a wide array of identities, conflicts, settings, and characters, as well as a historical overview of the queer young adult genre by two titans of young adult scholarship: Michael Cart and Joan Kaywell. This collection is the most comprehensive resource available for teachers today for teaching queer young adult literature.

• INTRODUCTIONHenry “Cody” Miller and Paula GreathouseCHAPTER 1The History of Queer Young Adult LiteratureMichael Cart and Joan F. KaywellCHAPTER 2Rhetorical Analysis of Black Queer Narratives through All Boys Aren’t BlueLaMar Timmons-LongCHAPTER 3Characterization and Symbolism in Superhero-Themed Graphic Novels with You Brought Me the OceanRené M. Rodríguez-AstacioCHAPTER 4 Color Palettes and Peculiar Panels: Studying Narrative Structure in Tillie Walden’s On A SunbeamNicole Amato and Jenna SpieringCHAPTER 5“About Being Free”: Exploring Identity, Queerness, and Radical Possibility through Verse in The Black Flamingoshea wesley martinCHAPTER 6“to go somewhere I knew someone would see me”: Narrative Structure, Flashbacks, and Social Worlds in Candice Iloh’s Every Body LookingRyan Burns CHAPTER 7Exploring The Prom as Texts and Symbol Terri Suico CHAPTER 8Focusing on Marginalized Identities through Imagery: A Fairy Tale Retelling and Remix with Dark and Deepest RedSummer Melody Pennell CHAPTER 9Queering Literary Close Reading with The FascinatorsScott StormCHAPTER 10Exploring Blackness, Queerness and Liberation through The Stars and the Blackness Between ThemDanelle Adeniji, Brittany Frieson, Tatyana Jimenez-Macias, Kristin Rasbury, Kyle Wright and Amanda Vickery CHAPTER 11Felix Ever After: A Mystery in Progress Lucy A. Garcia and Megan Lynn IsaacCHAPTER 12Exploring Characterization Narratives with Chulito: A NovelGabriel T. Acevedo Velázquez CHAPTER 13Multimodal Exploration of Identity in The Music of What HappensAnthony Celaya & Joseph D. Sweet CHAPTER 14Multimodal Analysis of Characters and Settings in Little & Lion by Brandy ColbertE. Sybil DurandABOUT THE EDITORS ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS SUBJECT INDEX