Here are citations to book chapters and articles I have written. Some are linked as pdfs, but ones that are published in journals should be located via research databases in academic libraries. If you don't have access to those, and something looks interesting, please send me an email request and I will send you a copy.
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Coats, K. (2018) "Form as Metaphor in Middle Grade and Young Adult Verse Novels." The Lion & the Unicorn, vol. 42, no. 2, April 2018, pp. 145-61.
Coats, K. (2018) "Lacanian Psychoanalytic Criticism." A Companion to Literary Theory. Edited by David H. Richter, Wiley Blackwell, pp. 385-95.
Coats, K. (2018) "Gender in Picturebooks." The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks. Edited by Betinna Kummerling-Meibauer. Routledge, pp. 119-27.
Coats, K. (2017) "A Primer of Possibilities: Cognitive Poetics and Children's Poetry." The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry, edited by Katherine Wakely-Mulroney and Louise Joy, Routledge, pp. 182-95.
Coats, K. (2017) “The Gothic in American Children’s Literature,” The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Literature, edited by Jeffery A. Weinstock, Cambridge UP, pp. 171-83.
Coats, K. (2017) “Teaching the Conflicts: Diverse Responses to Diverse Children's Books.” The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature, edited by Clementine Beauvais and Maria Nikolajeva, Edinburgh UP, pp.13-28.
Coats, K. (2016) “Between Fashion and Faith: Religious Identity as a Cultural Minority Position in Young Adult Literature.” Cultural Minorities in Children’s Literature and Verbal Culture. Eds. X. A. Neira Cruz and G. T. Sandsmark. Vidgis Finnbogadottir Institute of Foreign Language-University of Santiago de Compostela, pp. 57-64.
Causey, L. and Coats, K. (2016) “Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and the Expansive Cycle of Mothering while Black.” Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism. Ed. Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats. University of Mississippi P, pp. 113-132.
Coats, K. and Sands, F. N. (2016) "Growing Up Frankenstein: Adaptations for Young Readers." The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein. Ed. Andrew Smith. Cambridge UP, pp. 241-55.
Coats, K. (2016) “The End?: Approaches to Closure in Early Readers.” The Early Reader in Children’s Literature and Culture: Theorizing Books for Beginning Readers. Ed. Jennifer M. Miskec and Annette Wannamaker. Routledge, pp. 57-70.
Coats, K. (2014) “The Possibilities of Becoming: Process Relational Theology in the Works of David Almond.” David Almond: A Casebook, ed. by Rosemary Ross Johnston, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 67-83.
Coats, K. (2013) “Dialogism, Development, and Destination: Young Adults in Contemporary Culture.” Transforming Young Adult Services: A Reader for Our Age. Ed. by Anthony Bernier, Neal-Schuman Publishers, pp. 53-75.
Coats, K. (2013) “The Meaning of Children’s Poetry: A Cognitive Approach.” International Research in Children’s Literature 6.2, pp. 127-142.
Coats, K. (2012) “Transforming Children’s Minds: Children’s Poetry and Cognitive Poetics” Children’s Reading 2, pp. 136-145. (in Russian only)
Coats, K. and Trites, R. S. (2012) “Complicating Gender Binaries in the Feminist English Classroom,” Girls’ Literacy Experiences In and Out of School: Learning and Composing Gendered Identities, edited by Elaine J. O’Quinn. Routledge, pp. 141-155.
Coats, K. (2012) “’The Beat of your Heart’: Music in Young Adult Literature and Culture.” Contemporary Adolescent Literature and Culture: The Emergent Adult. Ed. by Mary Hilton and Maria Nikolajeva. Ashgate Publishing, pp. 111-125.
Coats, K. and Trites, R. S. (2011) “Teoreticheskie voprosy w izuchenii detskoj literatury. (Theoretical Approaches to Children's Literature.)” Konstruiruia detskoe: philologiia, istoriia, antropologiia (Constructing Childhood: literature, history, and anthropology.\) Ed. by Marina Balina. Moscow- St. Petersburg: RGGU, pp. 53-73.
Coats, K. (2011) “Identity.” Keywords for Children’s Literature. Ed. by Philip Nel and Lissa Paul. NYUP, pp. 109-112.
Coats, K. (2007) “Between Horror, Humour, and Hope: Neil Gaiman and the Psychic Work of the Gothic.” The Gothic in Children’s Literature: Haunting the Borders. Ed. by Anna Jackson, Karen Coats, and Roderick McGillis. Routledge, pp. 77-92.
Coats, K. (2006) “Fantastic Interventions: The Therapeutic Uses of Contemporary Canadian Fantasy for Children,” Canadian Children’s Literature 32.2, pp. 97-113.
Coats, K. and Trites, R. S. (2006) “Where Culture Meets Biology.” Canadian Children’s Literature 32.1, pp. 148-153.
Coats, K. (2006) “The Role of Love in the Development of the Self: From Freud and Lacan to Children’s Stories.” The Self: Beyond the Postmodern Crisis. Ed. by Paul C. Vitz and Susan M. Felch. ISI Books, pp. 45-61.
Coats, K. (2006) “Child-Hating: Peter Pan in the Context of Victorian Hatred.” J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan In and Out of Time: A Children’s Classic at 100, Scarecrow Press, pp. 3-22.
Coats, K. (2001) “Fish Stories: Teaching Children’s Literature in a Postmodern World.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 1.2, pp. 405-9.
Coats, K. (2001) “Keepin’ It Plural: Children’s Studies in the Academy.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 26.3, pp. 140-150. Reprinted in Children’s Literature: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. by Peter Hunt. New York: Routledge, 2006, pp. 181-199.
Coats, K. (2001) “The Reason for Disability.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature 39.1, pp. 11-16.
Coats, K. (2001) “The Mysteries of Postmodern Epistemology: Stratemeyer, Stine, and Contemporary Mystery for Children.” Secrets and Solutions: Encounters with Mystery in Literature for Children. Ed. by Adrienne Gavin and Chris Routledge. Macmillan, pp. 184-201.
Coats, K. (2000) “Abjection and Adolescent Fiction.” Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. 5.2, pp. 291-301.
Coats, K. (2000) “P is for Partiarchy: Re-Imaging the Alphabet.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 25.2, pp. 88-97. Print. (Honor Article for Literary Criticism in Children’s Literature from the Children’s Literature Association)
Coats, K. (1999) “Lacan with Runt Pigs.” Children’s Literature 27. Ed. by Elizabeth Lennon Keyser. New Haven: Yale UP, pp. 105-28.
Coats, K. (1997) “Underwriting the Uncanny: The Role of Children’s Literature in the Economy of the Subject.” Para*doxa 3.3-4, pp. 489-97.