Faculty Profiles

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

Duckels, G. L. (n.d.). Sentimentality and Sensation. In Cambridge History of Children’s Literature. Cambridge University Press.

Duckels, G. L. (2023). AIDS Melodrama Now: Queer Tears in It’s a Sin and Pose. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 26(1).

Duckels, G. L. (2023). Philadelphia. In The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film. Rowman & Littlefield.

Duckels, G. L., & Ryder, A. (2022). Emergency children’s literature about COVID-19 in the United Kingdom. In COVID-19 and Education in the Global North: Storytelling as Alternative Pedagogies (pp. 137–161). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02469-6_6

Duckels, G. L., & Hilton, N. (2022). Editors’ Introduction. International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 3(1). Retrieved from https://ijyal.ac.uk/9/volume/3/issue/1/

Duckels, G. L., & Hilton, N. (Eds.). (2022). Special Issue: Let’s Talk about Sex in Young Adult Literature. International Journal of Young Adult Literature (1st ed., Vol. 3). Retrieved from https://ijyal.ac.uk/9/volume/3/issue/1

Duckels, G. L. (2022). Review of The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books. Children & Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12674

Duckels, G. L. (2022). The First Young Adult Novels about AIDS in America. The Book Collector, 71(3).

Duckels, G. L. (2021). Melodrama and the Memory of AIDS in American Queer Young Adult Literature. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 46(3), 304–324. Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/article/840217

Duckels, G. L. (2021). How to have children’s literature in a pandemic. In Rainbows in Our Windows: Childhood in the Time of Corona.

Duckels, G. L. (2021). From heterosexualisation to memorialization: queer history and heterosexuality in Young Adult literature about the AIDS crisis. Mortality, 26(4), 424–438. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2021.1987660

Duckels, G. L. (2021). Popular music and AIDS Crisis Revisitation in Young Adult novels. Journal of Historical Fictions, 4(1). Retrieved from http://historicalfictionsjournal.org/pdf/JHF%202022-004.pdf

Duckels, G. L. (2021). Review of Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture.

Duckels, G. L. (2021). Review of Meidän piti lähteä, by Sanna Pelliccioni. Migration Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnab009

Duckels, G. L. (2020). Review of Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction. International Journal of Young Adult Literature. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.24877/ijyal.25

Duckels, G. L. (2020). Review of Literary Studies Deconstructed: A Polemic. International Research in Children’s Literature. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2020.0334

Duckels, G. L., & Zoe, J. (2019). Visualizing the Voiceless and Seeing the Unspeakable: Understanding International Wordless Picturebooks about Refugees. Jeunesse, 11(2), 124–150. https://doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2019.0020

Duckels, G. L. (2018). Bibliography of Cultural Texts. In DIALLS Project. Retrieved from https://dialls2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Bibliography-of-Cultural-Texts.pdf