SCET Journal 2020

Broadening Diverse Perspectives

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Vivian Yenika-Agbaw is professor of Education (Literature and Literacy) at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. A former high school teacher of English, and coordinator of the Literacies and English Language Arts (LELA) program at Penn State, she is the co-editor of Adolescents Rewrite their Worlds: Using Literature to Illustrate Writing Forms (2015, Rowman and Littlefield); and African Youth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: Identity Quest (2014, Routledge). Her recent co-edited book, “A Silence Full of Sound’: Children and Deaf Culture in Literature and Other Modes of Representations is forthcoming at the University Press of Mississippi.

René M. Rodríguez-Astacio is a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum & Instruction from the Pennsylvania State University. His area of emphasis is English Language Arts with a focus on Children’s and YA Literature. His research interests fall within the area of LGBTQIA+ and multicultural/Latinx children’s and young adult literature, more specifically, on the intersections be- tween race, gender, and sexuality in these books as well as how to create supporting tools for their incor- poration in the K-12 classrooms.

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