When Loss Gets Personal

Michelle M. Falter is an assistant professor of English education at North Carolina State University. Michelle’s scholarship focuses on dialogic, critical, and feminist pedagogies, emotion in the teaching of literature and writing in secondary classrooms, English teacher education, and adolescent literature. She has previously co-edited the book Teaching Outside the Box but Inside the Standards: Making Room for Dialogue with Teachers College Press. Steven T. Bickmore is an Associate professor of English Education at the University of Nevada and a past editor of The ALAN Review (2009-2014). He maintains a weekly academic blog on YA Literature—Dr. Bickmore's YA Wednesday (http://www.yawednesday.com/) and his research includes how English teachers negotiate the teaching of literature using young adult literature, especially around the issues of race, class, and gender.

Foreword
Author TBA
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Michelle M. Falter
Part I: Suicide
Chapter 1- Death and the Digital: Student Voices and Small Stories as Supplemental Texts to Thirteen Reasons Why
Emily C. Plummer
Chapter 2- Young Adults “Step Out” of Thirteen Reasons Why and Impulse: Moving from Personal Connection to Analysis
Alison Heron-Hruby, Mallory Aronhalt, Madison Beam, Hollibeth Francis, Danielle Jones, Haleigh Wells, and Brandie Trent
Chapter 3- Pursuing Mystery in A Tale for the Time Being: A Pedagogical Framework for Reading about Suicide with High School Students
Mark A. Sulzer
Part II: Terminal Illness
Chapter 4- Accepting the Deadline and Forging Ahead: Literature through the Lens of Palliative Care in a High School English Classroom
Christian Z. Goering and Ginger Goering
Chapter 5- Keeping it Real: Teaching Death Be Not Proud and This Star Won’t Go Out as Adolescent Narratives of Loss
Michelle M. Falter
Chapter 6- The Healing Power of Stories: Reading and Re-Reading A Monster Calls
Jon Ostenson
Part III- Accidents
Chapter 7- The Thing about Grieving: Intellectual and Emotional Work in Ali Benjamin’s The Thing about Jellyfish
Mary Harrell and Sharon Kane
Chapter 8- “Grieving Like a Normal Person”: Examining Responses to Grief in Nina LaCour’s We Are Okay
Jenna Spiering and Kate Kedley
Chapter 9- Envisioning Alternate Realities of Loss: Using Imagination to Bridge Classroom Conversations about Grief through Peter Pan and The Wendy Project
Nina R. Schoonover and Ashley A. Atkinson
Chapter 10- Addressing Trauma and Death with Young Adolescents through Tears of a Tiger
Melissa A. Baker, Laronda Brown, and Marisa A. Vicere
Chapter 11- Dealing with Death through Dialogue: Existentialism & Looking for Alaska
Katie Rybakova
Part IV: Familial Death
Chapter 12- The Intersectionality of Music and Mortality using Jason Reynold’s The Boy in the Black Suit
Latasha McKinney and Rebecca Maldonado
Chapter 13- Loss and the Perfection Crucible in The Bell Jar and The Catcher in the Rye
Antonia Alberga-Parisi and Brittany Pope
Chapter 14- “My Mother is a Fish”: Exploring Grief through As I Lay Dying
Chea Parton
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index