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  • CENSORSHIP AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM, READING RIGHTS, & READING ACTIVISM
    Vol. 6 No. 1 (2023)

    Study & Scructiny welcomes Dani Kachorsky as guest editor. She created the Call for Manuscripts and has been instrumental in producing this issue focused on censorship in Young Adult Literature. This issue goes beyond our usual editorial focus on empirical and critical studies to include a section titled "Pedagogy Plus," along with interviews and book reviews. 

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

    Study & Scrutiny welcomes guest editor, Jason D. DeHart, who envisioned this issue focused on the scholarship and merits of the comics medium. With his guidance and enthusiasm, we are so pleased to offer a robust issue, complete with two interviews, eight articles, and academic and trade book reviews. 

  • CREATIVE CONTAMINATION: GENERATING ENRICHMENT THROUGH ADAPTATION
    Vol. 5 No. 1 (2021)

    Welcome to Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature, Volume 5/Issue 1. In this issue, the editors sought out critical and empirical articles for the theme, Creative Contamination: Generating Enrichment Through Adaptation. Scholarship includes empirical and critical studies, along with interviews and book reviews, all focused on adaptation in young adult literature. Since three empirical studies utilize Critical Comparative Content Analysis (CCCA) as a method, Mark Sulzer shares a brief overview of the method he helped develop in the issue's "Introduction." Additionally you might want to check out a new feature, "Teacher Round Table," a space for in-service teachers to bring their own scholarship to the work of one of our studies.

  • Special Issue SPORTS-RELATED YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND POLITICS
    Vol. 4 No. 2 (2020)

    Themed “Sports-Related Young Adult Literature: Society, Culture, and Politics,” this issue of Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature invites readers to explore the confluence of sports culture and sociopolitical issues as depicted in contemporary sports-related YAL.

  • Study and Scrutiny
    Vol. 4 No. 1 (2020)

    Welcome to Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature, Volume 4/Issue 1. In this issue, the editors sought out scholarship both from and concerning the underrepresented and often misrepresented—especially Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC). Social justice issues of gender equity, gun violence, and diversity misrepresentation share connections through common themes in the young adult literature (YAL).

  • Vol. 2 No. 1 (2016)

    Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature is a journal that maneuvers between and within scholarship in the established fields of children’s and adult literature. More and more graduate students are studying young adult (YA) literature; more and more critical and empirical thesis and dissertation studies are being completed. However, this scholarship is still a trickle rather than the torrent it could be because publication venues for chapter-length articles have been few and far between. Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature harnesses the power of such scholarship in ways that will expand the field.

  • Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature
    Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016)

    Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature is a journal that maneuvers between and within scholarship in the established fields of children’s and adult literature. More and more graduate students are studying young adult (YA) literature; more and more critical and empirical thesis and dissertation studies are being completed. However, this scholarship is still a trickle rather than the torrent it could be because publication venues for chapter-length articles have been few and far between. Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature harnesses the power of such scholarship in ways that will expand the field.

  • Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature
    Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015)

    Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature is a journal that maneuvers between and within scholarship in the established fields of children’s and adult literature. More and more graduate students are studying young adult (YA) literature; more and more critical and empirical thesis and dissertation studies are being completed. However, this scholarship is still a trickle rather than the torrent it could be because publication venues for chapter-length articles have been few and far between. Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature will harness the power of such scholarship in ways that will help to expand the field.