- Ploughing the Field: A Discussion About YA Studies Corbett, Emily ; and Phillips, Leah. 2020. Ploughing the Field: A Discussion About YA Studies. International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 1(1), ISSN 2634-5277
- Transgender Books in Transgender Packages: The Peritextual Materials of Young Adult Fiction Corbett, Emily . 2020. Transgender Books in Transgender Packages: The Peritextual Materials of Young Adult Fiction. International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 1(1), pp. 1-25. ISSN 2634-5277
Dr Emily Corbett
Staff details
Position
Head of MA Children's Literature, Programme Director for BA English UoLW
Department
e.corbett (@gold.ac.uk)
Links
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups
Emily is a specialist in children's and YA literature, with particular interest in twenty-first-century fiction.
Dr Emily Corbett is a children’s and YA literature specialist. Her research focuses predominantly on how literature shapes – and is shaped by – the world around us, with a particular interest in the British book market and its paratextual materials. Emily’s recent monograph, In Transition: Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation (2024), was published with the University Press of Mississippi. Emily also serves as General Editor for The International Journal of Young Adult Literature and co-leads the children's and YA literature strand of the Centre for Language, Culture and Learning.
Academic qualifications
- PhD in Children's Literature, University of Roehampton
- MA English Studies, University of Exeter
- BA English, University of Leicester
Teaching and supervision
Emily is Head of the MA Children's Literature and Programme Director for the BA English with the University of London Worldwide. She also supervises several PhD projects on children's and young adult literature.
Publications and research outputs
Book
- In Transition: Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation Corbett, Emily . 2024. In Transition: Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781496852601
Article
- Ploughing the Field: Controversy and Censorship in US and UK YA Literature Corbett, Emily ; and Phillips, Leah. 2023. Ploughing the Field: Controversy and Censorship in US and UK YA Literature. International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 4(1), pp. 1-18. ISSN 2634-5277
- Ploughing the Field: (Inter)disciplinary Approaches to YA Studies Corbett, Emily ; and Phillips, Leah. 2022. Ploughing the Field: (Inter)disciplinary Approaches to YA Studies. International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 3(1), ISSN 2634-5277
- Ploughing the Field: YA in Translation Corbett, Emily ; and Phillips, Leah. 2021. Ploughing the Field: YA in Translation. International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2(1), ISSN 2634-5277
Research projects
Perceptions of Pain
“Perceptions of Pain” explores the role that reading young adult (YA) fiction can play in shaping and reflecting how adolescents understand and respond to the concept of pain.