• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Lyn Fairchild Hawks

YA Author, Teacher & College Essay Consultant

  • Readers
  • Books
  • Writers
  • Teachers
  • About
    • Awards
  • Essay Consulting
  • Contact Me

Is YA Literary? The Search for an Abundant Canon

Lyn Hawks · July 26, 2022 · Leave a Comment

So a thing happened, as folks today like to say, deliberately understating the bigness of said thing.

And as part of my work these last two years at Vermont College Fine Arts’ program in Writing for Children and Young Adults—besides writing one and a half young adult novels, a short story, two picture books, and a sixteenth of a middle-grade verse novel—I wrote a critical thesis.

This thesis joined two passions—young adult literature and literary analysis—while allowing me to advocate for more young adult literature in the canon. Why can’t we have an abundant canon with diverse, robust definitions of literary that represent a range of cultural lenses? How do we teach “traditional” literary analysis using young adult texts?

Here ’tis. Enjoy!

Is YA Literary? The Search for an Abundant Canon

Is YA Literary? The Search for an Abundant CanonDownload

Use of this document: Please share as needed when making a rationale to schools for the use of YA literature as canon in the classroom. You may reference this thesis in blog posts, board meetings, seminars, professional development, workshops, or other such venues if credit is given to Lyn Fairchild Hawks as author, and a link back to my site, lynhawks.com, is included.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: canon, high school, high school canon, literary, young adult, young adult literature

Want to hear more from Lyn? Subscribe to her monthly newsletter

Archives

  • July 2022
  • February 2022
  • December 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • November 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • May 2019
  • March 2019
  • January 2019
  • August 2018
  • May 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • November 2016
  • September 2016
  • July 2016
  • February 2016
  • November 2015
  • August 2015

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube

About me

“author

Photo by My Friend Teresa Studios

Could I live without words, writing, story? Probably not. I love telling stories. I love teaching stories. I love helping other people find theirs. That’s my story. [READ MORE...]

Want book news and writing tips? Subscribe to my newsletter

From Instagram

So much to be grateful for! 💚 you @vcfawcya So much to be grateful for! 💚 you @vcfawcya
Another I ❤️Vermont moment. Another I ❤️Vermont moment.
Vermont, in a nutshell 💜 Vermont, in a nutshell 💜

Copyright © 2022 · Lyn Fairchild Hawks