Rural Young Adult Literature

Considering Diversity and Combatting Rural Erasure in the U.S. and Abroad

Authors

  • Chea Parton
  • Rachelle Kuehl

Abstract

Deadline for Submissions: June 1, 2023

Author Biographies

Chea Parton

CHEA PARTON is a limited term lecturer at Purdue University. Her research focuses on the role of rurality in the identity development and practice of rural and rural out-migrant teachers as well as rural representation in YA literature. You can learn more about Chea’s work on her website, https://literacyinplace.com

Rachelle Kuehl

RACHELLE KUEHL is a postdoctoral associate in the School of Education at Virginia Tech, where she conducts research through the Appalachian Rural Talent Initiative (ARTI) and the Summer Enrichment Experience at Virginia Tech (SEE VT), two projects aimed at increasing equity in gifted services for students in rural communities. Her work primarily focuses on critical literacy practices, children’s literature pedagogies, and rural education.

References

Howley, C. B., & Howley, A. (2010). Poverty and school achievement in rural communities: A social-class interpretation. In Schafft, K., & Youngblood-Jackson, A. (Eds.), Rural education for the twenty-first century: Identity, place, and community in a globalizing world (pp. 34–50). Pennsylvania State University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/663286

Kuehl, R. (2020a). A place for reading: Leveraging mentor texts with middle grade rural readers. Journal of Literacy Innovation, 5(2), 5–23.

Kuehl, R. (2020b). Connecting to place in the literacy classroom. Virginia English Journal, 70(2), Article 3.

Parton, C. (2020). “I Think of My Dog Dying Books”: Possible Challenges to and Suggestions for Teaching Contemporary Rural YA Literature in Secondary ELA Classrooms. Journal of Literacy Innovation, 5(2), 61–80.

Parton, C. (2022a). Amplifying Rural Voices: Defining, reading, and writing rural stories. Montana English Journal, 43, Art. 3. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mej/vol43/iss1/3/.

Parton, C. (2022b). Who’s ‘ere?: Identifying and addressing rural erasure in ELA classrooms. Virginia English Journal, 71(2), Art. 2.

Petrone, R. M., & Behrens, A. (2017, May 31). Reading YAL for representations of contemporary rurality. [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://www.yawednesday.com/blog/representations-of-contemporary-rural-people-and-places-in-yal

Ruday, S., Azano, A. P., & Kuehl, R. (2021). Books as portals: Using place to understand rural students’ individuated reading experiences. English in Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/04250494.2021.1919017

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Published

2022-07-01

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2022): IMAGE AND TEXT: CRITICAL AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON THE USE OF COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS IN LITERACY INSTRUCTION

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