Katherine Bell

I have worked with graduate students researching feminist historical fiction, 18th century children's literature, speculative YA fiction and feminist pedagogy. Though I have a special interest in representations of youth in Canadian literature, I welcome opportunities to work with students interested in any aspect of children's/YA literature or Canadian literature.

Journal Articles

• “On Letting The Outsiders In: Will Grayson, Will Grayson and the Lonely Work of Individuation in Young Adult Literature.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. Accepted. Forthcoming Fall 2018.
• "Behind the Blackout Curtains: Female Focalization of Atlantic Canada in the Dear Canada Series of Historical Fiction." Children's Literature in Education 49.2 (2018): 161-179.
• “Run, Run, You Crazy Fool of a Son: Dodging and Embracing Young Adulthood in Kevin Major’s Hold Fast and Justin Simms’s Film Adaptation.” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 7.1 (2015): 62-86.
• “Breaking the Narrative Ties that Bind in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy.” English Studies in Canada, Special Issue: Childhood and its Discontents, 38.3 (2013): 255-275.
• “A Badly Brought up Member of the Family: Early Adolescence as Narrative Rupture in The Lives of Girls and Women.” Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5.2 (2012): 9-23.
• “Troping the Primitive: The Rhetoric of Socialization in Novels of Education and Education Theory.” Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 34.5 (2012): 82-95.
• “‘A Family from a Continent of… I Don’t Know What:’ Refiguring Ways of Belonging in Coming of Age Novel for Young Adults.” The Alan Review 38.2 (2011): 23-31.
• “Grotesque Encounters with Adolescence: Reading Carson McCuller’s A Member of the Wedding.” Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education 18.1 (2011): 67-73.
• “The Angst of Everyday: Using Narrative to Provoke an Affective Understanding of Adolescence.” Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations and Interventions 2:1 (2011): 20-32.

Book Chapters

• “The Politics of Realism: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Adolescent “Storm and Stress.” MLA Options for Teaching Series: Young Adult Literature. Eds. Karen Coats, Mike Cadden, and Roberta Seelinger Trites. Forthcoming.
• “The Cult of Solitude: Wordsworth’s Child Figure In British and Canadian Contexts.” In Lance Weldy, ed. Crossing Textual Boundaries in International Children's Literature. 2nd Ed. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011. 344-360.

Other Contributions

• “Teenagers.” SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies. Forthcoming.
• "'Obvie, We're the Ladies!:' Post-feminism, Privilege and HBO's Newest Girls." Feminist Media Studies. 13: 2 (2013): 363-66.

Reviews and Commentaries

• "'Obvie, We're the Ladies!:' Post-feminism, Privilege and HBO's Newest Girls." Feminist Media Studies. 13: 2 (2013): 363-66.