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Dr. Gabriel Leonard Duckels

  • Assistant Professor - English
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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.

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • 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.
  • 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: AIDS 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. (2024). Young Adult Novels, AIDS Pedagogy, and Queer History: Reevaluating Night Kites by M. E. Kerr. Minnesota Review, 2025(104), 141–151. https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-11859110
  • 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
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  • 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

  1. Bobcat Day Committee

  2. Advanced Studies Committee

  3. Therese Kayser Lindsey Literary Series Committee

  4. Other

  5. Reviewer / Referee

    ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents)

  6. Reviewer / Referee

    American Journal of Sexuality Education

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