Faculty Profile for Dr. Gabriel Leonard Duckels
Dr. Gabriel Leonard Duckels
Assistant Professor — English
FH
phone: (512) 245-7698
Biography Section
Biography and Education
Dr. Gabriel Duckels is an Assistant Professor of Children's and Young Adult Literature at Texas State University. He was previously an Early Career Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.Research Interests
children's and young adult literatureHIV/AIDS studies
melodrama
Selected Scholarly/Creative Work
- Duckels, G. L. (n.d.). AIDS, innocence, and the antisocial subject in queer biographical children’s picturebooks: a case study on Keith Haring. In Reading LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books.
- Duckels, G. L., & Levithan, D. (n.d.). Fight of Our Lives: A Youth History of AIDS and Activism in America. Random House.
- Duckels, G. L. (n.d.). Queer Youth in Trouble: Gender Insubordination and HIV/AIDS in the New Gay Young Adult Novel. The Lion and the Unicorn.
- Duckels, G. L. (n.d.). Critical Optimism and AIDS Work in the Problem Novel: Reading M.E. Kerr’s Night Kites as Queer History. Minnesota Review.
- Duckels, G. L. (2024). Emergency Children’s Literature: Some Observations on Pandemic Picture Books. In Alt Kid Lit: What Children’s Literature Might Be (pp. 99–113). University Press of Mississippi. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.12638985.10
Selected Awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: St John’s College MPhil Scholarship Prize, St John's College, University of Cambridge. 2018 - Present
- Award / Honor Recipient: Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship. 2019 - 2024
- Award / Honor Recipient: Article Honor Award, Children's Literature Association. 2023
- Award / Honor Recipient: Rose Book Collection Prize, Cambridge University Library. 2021
Selected Grants
- Duckels, Gabriel Leonard. Bibliographical Society Minor Grant, UK literary organization, $750. (Funded: 2023). Grant.
- Duckels, Gabriel Leonard. Antiquarian Booksellers Association Bursary, University of London, $500. (Funded: 2021). Grant.
- Duckels, Gabriel Leonard. Hannah Beiter Graduate Student Research Grant, Children's Literature Association, $1000. (Funded: 2021). Grant.
- Duckels, Gabriel Leonard. Let's Talk about Sex in Young Adult Literature, University of Cambridge, Arts and Humanities Research Council UK, $2500. (Funded: 2020). Grant.
- Duckels, Gabriel Leonard. Let's Talk about Sex in Young Adult Literature, University of Cambridge, $750. (Funded: 2020). Grant.