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Introduction: The State of Latinx Young Adult<\/strong> Literature<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By Guest Editors Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trevor Boffone\u00a0<\/strong>is a Lecturer in the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston. His work using Dubsmash and TikTok with his students has been featured on\u00a0Good Morning America<\/em>,\u00a0ABC News<\/em>,\u00a0Inside Edition<\/em>, and\u00a0Access Hollywood<\/em>, among numerous national and local media platforms. He is the author of\u00a0Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok<\/em>. He is the co-editor of\u00a0Encuentro: Latinx Performance for the New American Theater<\/em>;\u00a0Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature<\/em>;\u00a0Shakespeare and Latinidad<\/em>; and Seeking Common Ground: Latinx and Latin American Theatre and Performance<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Cristina Herrera<\/strong> earned her PhD in English from Claremont Graduate University and is Professor of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno. Her book, ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy<\/em> (2020) was published in Routledge\u2019s Children\u2019s Literature and Culture Series. Cristina is also the author of the 2014 study Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Performativity in<\/strong> Yuyi Morales\u2019s Dreamers<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By Lettycia Terrones<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lettycia Terrones<\/strong>\u00a0serves as Learning and Instructional Services Librarian at California State University Los Angeles and is completing a Ph.D. in Library and Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s her Goooaaalll!!!!!!: Centering Latina Athletes in Yamile Saied M\u00e9ndez\u2019s Furia<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By Melissa Castillo Planas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Melissa Castillo Planas<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor of English at Lehman College specializing in Latinx Literature and Culture. She is the author of the poetry collection Coatlicue Eats the Apple<\/em>, editor of the anthology \u00a1Manteca!: An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets<\/em>, co-editor of La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades<\/em> and co-author of the novel Pure Bronx<\/em>. Her most recent book project, A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture,<\/em> examines the creative worlds and cultural productions of Mexican migrants in New York City after 9\/11. Her second book of poetry, Chingona Rules<\/em>, is forthcoming with Finishing Line Press in August 2021. To learn more visit\u00a0www.melissacastilloplanas.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Imagining the Future: The (Im)Possibilities of Queerness in Two Latinx Speculative Young Adult Novels<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By Cristina Rhodes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cristina Rhodes<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic American Literature at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. Her primary research focus is Latinx children’s and young adult literature, with a special emphasis on the body. She is currently working on a manuscript-length project that engages with questions of bodily transformation in non-realist Latinx youth literature.<\/p>\n

Alien Orientations and Disruptions in William Alexander\u2019s Ambassador<\/em> (2014)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By Mar\u00eda J. Dur\u00e1n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda J. Dur\u00e1n<\/strong>\u00a0is an Assistant Professor of Latinx Cultural Studies at Brandeis University. Her\u00a0research focuses on the body, political\u00a0agency, and the performance of resistance in 20th and 21st century U.S. Latinx cultural productions. Her other research interests include Latinx theater, third world feminisms, critical theory, and multiethnic American literature. Dur\u00e1n is currently working on her solo-authored monograph, which examines structural violence, grief, and healing in contemporary Latinx theater and performance. As a first-generation Latina, she is committed to mentoring under-represented students for student retention and success.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t talk:\u201d Silence, Trauma, and Fathers in Aristotle and Dante<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Discover the Secrets of the Universe <\/em><\/strong>and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

By M. Roxana Loza<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roxana Loza<\/strong> is a 4th year PhD student at UT Austin working on her prospectus. Her dissertation project will focus on children and immigration in contemporary Latinx children\u2019s and YA literature. Her B.A. from Rice University was in English, French, and Psychology and her M.A. in Children\u2019s Literature from Kansas State University. She is currently learning how to be a graduate student and a mom to an 9-month-old baby.<\/p>\n

Confronting the Shadow-Beast: A Young Chicana\u2019s Development of La Facultad Consciousness in Kelly Parra\u2019s YA Novel Graffiti Girl<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By<\/strong> Laura M. L\u00f3pez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Laura Marie L\u00f3pez<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas.\u00a0She has spent over twenty years working in higher education as a researcher, program administrator, and faculty member at Hispanic-Serving Institutions.\u00a0Dr. Lopez has taught college writing and literature for the past thirteen years in San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley.\u00a0She holds a Ph.D. in English with a focus on Latinx Literature and Rhetorical Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio.\u00a0Her dissertation examines working-poor Chicanas in contemporary young adult literature.<\/p>\n

Daniel Jos\u00e9 Older on the Shadowshaper Cypher<\/em> Series: Part I<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Interviewed by Taryne Jade Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Taryne Jade Taylor<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor of Humanities and Composition at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University where she also serves as the coordinator for the Latin American Studies minor. Her research focuses on the politics of representation in speculative fiction, particularly feminist science fiction and Latinx futurisms. Dr. Taylor is currently co-editing\u00a0The Routledge Handbook to Alternative Futurisms\u00a0<\/em>with\u00a0Grace Dillon, Isiah Lavender III, and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay. She is an associate editor for\u00a0the\u00a0Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts<\/em>, editor of the Routledge book series\u00a0Studies in Global Genre Fiction,<\/em>\u00a0Vice Chair of the BIPOC Committee for the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, and a juror for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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