YASA (YA Studies Association)
One for YASA members! Or anyone interested in YA literature, media, and culture.
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@lephill.bsky.social
@cassandragrosh.bsky.social
she/her Scholar, writer, feminist, mom, crazy cat lady. YA Lit, Queer Studies, Disability Studies, Writing Centers, FYC, Secondary Ed Currently: working on MA in English Literature @ Ball State University
@everalkisti.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher working on childrenโs/fantasy literature & identity @ University of Edinburgh. Writer, reader, adventurer. Ever changing. โ๏ธ๐โ๏ธ Itโs pronounced AHL-kee-stee.
@magistracohen.bsky.social
Formerly working w/@/for many, now writing about myth & YA novels @ #Northwestern. Self-styled Tom Joad of Latin teachers. Still immoderata mulier, still proud of my alumnx, still #confelicity. I salt vibes. https://linktr.ee/navacohen
@amandamgreenwell.bsky.social
Teacher. Researcher. Human. Associate Prof of English and English Ed at CCSU. Author of The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature. Associate Editor of Childrenโs Literature Association Quarterly. Content is mine and not my employerโs.
@hermioneclone.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Co-Chief Diversity Officer at SUNY Canton. YA series books, C19AmLit, WWI, fandom. Queer (pan/demi) Wiccan. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐โ Views my own, not employer's. https://linktr.ee/emilyhamiltonhoney
@jeremytlj.bsky.social
Asst. Prof of English Illinois State โข Childrenโs & YA Lit โข Economic Humanities โข YASA President โข Neurodivergent โข He/Him โข Views My Own
@drleachleung.bsky.social
Scholar of #KidLit #YALit #Disability #Dyslexia and #Genre | PhD in Education, University of Cambridge | she/her
@emmawhatman.bsky.social
She/Her. Precarious academic ๐ซ I research postfeminism, young people, sex education, & media.
@dremilycorbett.bsky.social
Lecturer specialising in children's and YA literature. General Editor of The International Journal of Young Adult Literature.
@jenniegouck.bsky.social
WiRe Fellow at University of Mรผnster ๐ Researches girlhood in American YA ๐ค. ChLA Membership Committee ๐ฅ. Reviewer for Kids Books Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช. She/her.
@srtoliver.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | #Literacies, #EduSky, #AcademicSky, #BlackSky |she/her| Award-winning author (๐) | website: www.ReadingBlackFutures.com ๐๐
@huntressleine.bsky.social
Kids media researcher and critic. Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University; RA with DEFI Cambridge; media reviews editor for Adaptation at OUP
@amandaallenphd.bsky.social
English Prof. I research 1940s-1960s teen romance & print culture, the female network of editors & librarians who published midcentury #KidLit & #YALit, and fan & fandom studies. YA editor of JPRS. LOVES BOOKBINDING! She/her.
@darkliterata.bsky.social
she/they i read slowly & often ๐ โข queer black librarian ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ โข anti-oppression educator โ๐พ โข kidlit scholar, reviewer, guide author ๐ค โข high key trekkie ๐๐พ
@corinnekathryn.bsky.social
Scholar of Childrenโs and Young Adult Literature, Fantasy, & Consent | English PhD | Cohost of Sex. Love. Literature., a Pop Culture Podcast, found at @sexlovelitpodcast.bsky.social
@ebonyteach.bsky.social
Chair & Associate Professor, University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU ๐. 1913 โค๏ธ. August โ๏ธ. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel, 2026). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
@lephill.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer & Programme Lead at @marjonuni. MA Lit for Social and Environmental Justice launching in โ25 (pending final approvals). Author of Female Heroes in YA Fantasy & Founder of @YAStudiesAssoc. Views my own. Also, I read banned books.๐