I will be presenting at SAMLA 2017 on Sunday, November 1!
8:30am-10:00am
11-21 Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Literature
Piedmont 5
Chair: Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, Georgia Institute of Technology
(rachel.dean-ruzicka@lmc.gatech.edu)
- Rachel Dean-Ruzicka,
Georgia Institute of Technology (rachel.dean-ruzicka@lmc.gatech.edu)
“Say Something Once, Why Say it Again?” The Prolifera on of Psychics and Psychos in Young Adult Literature - Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Georgia Institute of Technology
(rebekah. tzsimmons@lmc.gatech.edu)
Genre Conventions of YA Dystopian Trilogies - Ya’ara Notea, Beit Berl College (yaara.notea@gmail.com)
Reimagining Forma on: The Female Bildungsroman’s Comeback in the 21st Century - Jeremy Johnston, University of Western Ontario (jjohn387@uwo.ca)
Purging the Silence: Young Adult Literature and the Discourse of Mental Health
SAMLA_Presentation_2017 (downloadable)
Special thanks to Rachel Dean-Ruzicka for organizing the panel!
Rebekah Fitzsimmons 