Watching a Train Wreck by Brendan O'ShaughnessyO’Shaughnessy, Brendan. “Watching a Train Wreck.” Notre Dame Stories, 13 Feb. 2023. Brendan O’Shaughnessy is an award winning […]

Koppelman, Andrew. Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty?: The Unnecessary Conflict. Oxford University Press, 2020.
In his new book published by Oxford University Press, Koppelman provides a compromise to the […]

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to Queer Coming of Age Narratives.

The idea for this class came from my own academic research into queer young adult literature. Queer Young Adult Literature is a growing academic field, […]

For my final project, I will be working on a part of my portfolio exam. Although the exam has 4 parts and I am hoping to be finished with at least 2 of them before the end of this semester, I will only be using […]

“‘Oh, don’t worry about them!’ cried Mr. Wonka. ‘They’re always laughing! They think everything’s a colossal joke’” (Dahl 81).

When you think about the story line of Roald Dahl’s famous children’s book Cha […]

In the article, Kertzer poses three different ways of analyzing Alexie’s novel: through the critique of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, through the novel’s intertextual references and similarities, and through the use of […]

LGBT themed Literature

The article that I chose to focus on for this week is “Reading LGBT-Themed Literature with Young People: What’s Possible?” by Caroline T. Clark and Mollie V. Blackburn. In it, the authors […]

Hi everyone,

I hope that you are all enjoying the long weekend in spite of the weather. Here are my discussion questions for Wonder.

Is it ableist to give August an award at the end of year ceremony? […]