Description: A new perspective on an explosively popular subgenre of young adult media
Brief description: Derritt Mason is associate professor of English at the University of Calgary. They are author of Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture and coeditor (with Kenneth B. Kidd) of Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality.
Review Quotes: Mason's queer reading strategies and his queer readings of YA cultural texts can help us imagine ourselves differently, our relationships differently, and our world differently. . . . His engagement with theory is nuanced and smart, his provocations clear and compelling. I find the focus on anxiety promising, provocative, generative even.--Jennifer Miller "Children's Literature"