Teaching Young Adult Literature Today: Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher

About the Author

Judith A. Hayn is associate professor of English education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is the chair of the NCTE Conference on English Education Commission on the Study and Teaching of Adolescent Literature and of SIGNAL, the Special Interest Group Network on Adolescent Literature for the International Reading Association. Hayn began her career in education as a middle and high school English language arts. Jeffrey S. Kaplan is associate professor of English education at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Kaplan is President-Elect for ALAN, the Assembly for the Study of Literature for Adolescents. He is also the Research Connections Editor for the ALAN Review, a leading peer-reviewed journal on the study and teaching of young adult literature. Kaplan is a former middle and high school English Language Arts teacher. Karina Clemmons, is an assistant professor of secondary education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She has taught English for Speakers of Other Languages to middle school, high school and adult students in the United States and abroad.