a dragon wrecked my prom: teen wizards, mutants, and heroes, ed., forthcoming from lexington, 2009

middle-grade and y/a lit

youth and sexuality

fantasy and childhood

my research in children's literature focuses on children's fantasy texts, creative writing by teens, and issues of sexuality within writing for children and young-adults

current interests include spanish-language children's books and comics, board-books, and same-sex adoption in kidslit

boy meets gayboy: queer adolescence in the writing of david levithan, mediated boyhood, forthcoming from peter lang, 2010

language and metamorphosis in diane duane's young wizards series, mosaic, 40.3, 2007

transgendered magic, reprinted in over the rainbow: queer children's literature, university of michigan, 2009

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