Proposals are invited for a volume entitled Teaching Young Adult Literature, to be edited by Karen Coats, Mike Cadden, and Roberta Seelinger Trites. This volume in the MLA series Options for Teaching aims to bring together a variety of articles describing innovative and successful approaches to designing and teaching stand-alone young adult (YA) literature courses at the postsecondary level, as well as incorporating young adult texts into other undergraduate and graduate courses relevant to MLA members and faculty members in education and library science.
This volume will be a resource for teachers, both new and experienced, of YA texts. It will provide suggestions for supplementary materials and pedagogical activities for a variety of student audiences in many college settings. Abstracts that use specific YA texts as examples to demonstrate how to teach genres in YA literature (e.g., graphic narrative, historical fiction, the verse novel) are welcome, as are abstracts that focus on themes, topics, methods, and problems in teaching YA literature.
Your abstract should clarify your intended topic; setting; its relevance to the subject of YA literature pedagogy; the texts, genres, or theories you expect to explore; and the value of your intended topic to a broad range of instructors and students. Please note that any quotations from student papers will require written permission from the students. Contributors to a volume must be members of the MLA from the time that their contribution is submitted in the final, approved manuscript to publication.
If you are interested in contributing an essay of 2,000–3,000 words, please submit an abstract of 350–500 words to Karen Coats (kscoat2@ilstu.edu) by 1 November 2015.