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.

INTRODUCTION

Henry “Cody” Miller and Paula Greathouse

CHAPTER 1

The History of Queer Young Adult Literature

Michael Cart and Joan F. Kaywell

CHAPTER 2

Rhetorical Analysis of Black Queer Narratives through All Boys Aren’t Blue

LaMar Timmons-Long

CHAPTER 3

Characterization and Symbolism in Superhero-Themed Graphic Novels with You Brought Me

the Ocean

René M. Rodríguez-Astacio

CHAPTER 4

Color Palettes and Peculiar Panels: Studying Narrative Structure in Tillie Walden’s On A

Sunbeam

Nicole Amato and Jenna Spiering

CHAPTER 5

“About Being Free”: Exploring Identity, Queerness, and Radical Possibility through Verse in

The Black Flamingo

shea wesley martin

CHAPTER 6

“to go somewhere I knew someone would see me”: Narrative Structure, Flashbacks, and Social

Worlds in Candice Iloh’s Every Body Looking

Ryan Burns

CHAPTER 7

Exploring The Prom as Texts and Symbol

Terri Suico

CHAPTER 8

Focusing on Marginalized Identities through Imagery: A Fairy Tale Retelling and Remix with

Dark and Deepest Red

Summer Melody Pennell

CHAPTER 9

Queering Literary Close Reading with The Fascinators

Scott Storm

CHAPTER 10

Exploring Blackness, Queerness and Liberation through The Stars and the Blackness Between

Them

Danelle Adeniji, Brittany Frieson, Tatyana Jimenez-Macias, Kristin Rasbury, Kyle Wright and Amanda Vickery

CHAPTER 11

Felix Ever After: A Mystery in Progress

Lucy A. Garcia and Megan Lynn Isaac

CHAPTER 12

Exploring Characterization Narratives with Chulito: A Novel

Gabriel T. Acevedo Velázquez

CHAPTER 13

Multimodal Exploration of Identity in The Music of What Happens

Anthony Celaya & Joseph D. Sweet

CHAPTER 14

Multimodal Analysis of Characters and Settings in Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert

E. Sybil Durand

ABOUT THE EDITORS

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

SUBJECT INDEX