Rebekah Fitzsimmons – författare

Children’s Literature and Digital Humanities opens the door to exploration of the digital humanities by practitioners and scholars of children’s and young adult literature. It is an accessible and practical guide to engaging with and thinking like digital humanities scholars. The book also invites DH scholars into the children’s literature space, framing mutually beneficial spaces for collaboration. Building conceptual bridges between two distinct, sometimes daunting, but ultimately complementary fields, this text presents a starting point to foster conversations, training, engagement. It invites scholarship at the multiple intersection points between the diverse, interdisciplinary, interactive work that falls under the umbrella of children’s literature studies and digital humanities. This book explores opportunities for innovation in children’s literature scholarship as a complement to more traditional methodologies that are usually the focus of children’s literature academic training, helping both new and established scholars in the children’s literature field add new tools to their analytical toolbox. Through embracing digital humanities methodologies, theories, practical examples, and beginner-friendly resources, this text brings out the best in both fields.

Children’s Literature and Digital Humanities opens the door to exploration of the digital humanities by practitioners and scholars of children’s and young adult literature. It is an accessible and practical guide to engaging with and thinking like digital humanities scholars. The book also invites DH scholars into the children’s literature space, framing mutually beneficial spaces for collaboration. Building conceptual bridges between two distinct, sometimes daunting, but ultimately complementary fields, this text presents a starting point to foster conversations, training, engagement. It invites scholarship at the multiple intersection points between the diverse, interdisciplinary, interactive work that falls under the umbrella of children’s literature studies and digital humanities. This book explores opportunities for innovation in children’s literature scholarship as a complement to more traditional methodologies that are usually the focus of children’s literature academic training, helping both new and established scholars in the children’s literature field add new tools to their analytical toolbox. Through embracing digital humanities methodologies, theories, practical examples, and beginner-friendly resources, this text brings out the best in both fields.

Contributions by Megan Brown, Jill Coste, Sara K. Day, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Amber Gray, Roxanne Harde, Tom Jesse, Heidi Jones, Kaylee Jangula Mootz, Leah Phillips, Rachel L. Rickard Rebellino, S. R. Toliver, Jason Vanfosson, Sarah E. Whitney, and Casey Alane WilsonWhile critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-first-century young adult literature has exponentially increased in recent years, classroom materials and scholarship have remained static in focus and slight in scope. Twilight, The Hunger Games, The Fault in Our Stars, and The Hate U Give overwhelm conversations among scholars and critics - but these are far from the only texts in need of analysis.Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction offers a necessary remedy to this limiting perspective, bringing together essays about the many subgenres, themes, and character types that have until now been overlooked. The collection tackles a diverse range of topics-modern updates to the marriage plot; fairy tale retellings in dystopian settings; stories of extrajudicial police killings and racial justice. The approaches are united, though, by a commitment to exploring the large-scale generic and theoretical structures at work in each set of texts. As a collection, Beyond the Blockbusters is an exciting entryway into a field that continues to grow and change even as its works captivate massive audiences. It will prove a crucial addition to the library of any scholar or instructor of young adult literature.