Area 9: Text Analysis/Children’s, Young Adult and Adult Literature

Anna Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, University of Pennsylvania

Comic Artists’ Depictions of Adolescence: Fabrication, Enchantment, and Nostalgia - Mark A. Lewis, Loyola University Maryland

Consuming Identities: Response and Revision in Youth Engagement with Branded Young Adult Literature - Nora Peterman, University of Missouri - Kansas City

Wonderland to Un Lun Dun: Using speculative literature to critique reading as windows and mirrors - Bevin Roue, Michigan State University

“I Don’t Feel … Like a Real Person”: Giftedness as Dispossession and Memoir Comics of Alienation - Michael L Kersulov, Indiana University