Welcome to Introducing YASA! This series of blog posts is all about getting to know the YASA executive board members. In this entry, we chat to our Vice President Emily Corbett and meet her puppy Madison.
How do you describe your research area in three keywords?
Trans YA, paratexts, publication histories
What’s the most under-rated YA novel that you’ve loved?
C.B. Lee’s Sidekick Squad series (cheating a bit because that’s more than one novel…)
Where’s the best location for you to read?
In bed at 2am when I should be asleep but I need to read just one more chapter…
What’s your favourite beverage/snack to have while reading?
The biggest cup of tea and chocolate hobnobs
What is your favourite YA tv/movie adaptation?
It’s only just been announced, but I can already tell I’m going to love it – Felix Ever After!
What’s a YA on your TBR that you’re excited to read?
George Lester’s ‘Boy Queen’!
What would your teen-self think of your current research, in a few words?
My teen self would not be the least bit surprised that I’m still in school.
What’s one YA that you’d love every teenager to read?
Anything by Juno Dawson!
If you weren’t a YA scholar, what other kind of YA practitioner would you be? (librarian, bookseller, author, publisher etc…)
I’d love to work in publishing. I’d also love to write my own books, but as I don’t have a creative bone in my body I’m not sure that one would work out…
What is your favourite YA trope?
Love triangles are my guilty pleasure.
Thanks for chatting, Emily!
Contact Emily at yasavicepresident@gmail.com or via Twitter @EmilyCorbett11.
Emily Corbett is a final year PhD Candidate at the National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, where she is pursuing a project on twenty-first-century YA literature. She is also an Associate Editor of The International Journal of Young Adult Literature, and her first article entitled “Transgender Books in Transgender Packages: An Investigation of ‘Coming Out’ in the Peritexts of Twenty-First Century Anglo-American Transgender Young Adult Novels” is forthcoming in Autumn 2020.
