Writing
2021
Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture
University Press of Mississippi
★ Children's Literature Association Honor Book Award (2023)
2024
Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might Be
University Press of Mississippi
Co-edited with Kenneth B. Kidd
2019
Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality
Fordham University Press
Co-edited with Kenneth B. Kidd
Selected Articles
With Angel Daniel Matos and Katharine Slater. Children's Literature Association Quarterly 50.1 (2025): 5-38.
The Lion and the Unicorn 45.1 (2021): 1-24. ★ Children's Literature Association Article Award (2023)
Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 6.3 (2021): 285-303.
With Joshua Whitehead. Research on Diversity in Youth Literature 2.1 (2019): 1-21.
English Studies in Canada 38.3-4 (2013): 83-104.
Book Chapters
"Trans"
Keywords for Children's Literature, 2nd Edition. Eds. Philip Nel, Lissa Paul, and Nina Christensen. NYU Press, 2021, pp. 181-184.
"What Having Two Mommies Looks Like Now: Queer Picture Books in the Twenty-First Century"
Literary Cultures and Twenty-First Century Childhoods. Ed. Nathalie op de Beeck. Palgrave, 2020, pp. 109-137.
Public Scholarship
Literary Hub, 2021.
Public Books, 2018.