Yvonne Medina
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“‘It Was Very Queer!’ Queering Time and Family Structures in Mrs. Molesworth’s The Cuckoo Clock” 2024
Children’s Literature Quarterly, Special Issue: Questioning the Canon: Rethinking the Golden Age
of Children’s Literature
“Disability and the Evasion of Color in Theodore Taylor’s The Cay” Children’s Literature in Education. 2023
“Taming a Tomboy's Time: Temporal Didacticism in Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did” Revise and
Resubmit
Works in Progress
“Who Wants to Play Rugby? Baron de Coubertin’s Failure to Proselytize Tom Brown’s School Days in Fin de Work in Progress
Siècle France”
“And They Lived Happily After Historical Disaster: Wish-Fulfillment in Lauren Tarshis’ I Survived Series” Work In Progress
Select Conference Papers
Children’s Literature Association 2023, Bellevue, Washington
“Disability, Death, and Temporality in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince and Michel Déon’s 2023
Thomas et l’infini”
Society for Disability Studies 2022, Ohio State University, Virtual Conference 2022
“No Child is an Island: Ability Privileging and Crip Poetics in Robinsonades for Children”
Modern Language Association 2020, Seattle, Washington 2020
Genre Studies Children’s and Young Adult Literature Panel: Vision and Sight in Children’s Literature and Culture, “Blindness as a Denial of Difference: Color-Blind Racial Ideology in Theodore Taylor's The Cay”
International Research Society for Children’s Literature 2019, Stockholm, Sweden 2019
“Blindness and Bigotry: Visually Silencing The Other in Theodore Taylor’s The Cay”
Children’s Literature Association 2019, Indianapolis, Indiana 2019
“Writing Against Animal Cruelty: Disability and Anna Sewell's Black Beauty”
Research
Children’s Literature Association 2018, San Antonio, Texas 2018
“Disability and Racial Inequality in Theodore Taylor’s The Cay”
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Florida 2020 - present
“Disability and the Maturation Plot: Coming of Age for the Disabled Child Protagonist”
Chair: Kenneth Kidd
Committee: Pamela Gilbert, Delia Steverson, Anastasia Ulanowicz, Heather Vrana
Master's Thesis, University of Florida 2019
“Blindness as Color Evasion: Evading Race in Theodore Taylor's The Cay.”
Chair: Kenneth Kidd
Committee: Delia Steverson
English Senior Thesis, Bryn Mawr College 2014
“Textual Experience and the Sacramental Imagination in George MacDonald's Phantastes and Lilith.”
Advisor: Kate Thomas
French Senior Essay, Bryn Mawr College 2014
« La corporalité derrière l’oralité et la textualité de L’Enfant de sable »
Advisor: Grace Armstrong
Public Humanities
“On Charlotte Lucas and Terrible Gold Diggers Like Myself” The Rambling. February 12, 2022. 2022
Valentine’s Day Special Issue. Eds. Sarah Tindall Kareem and Crystal B. Lake
“The Proustian Magic of Marie Kondo” Medium. Curious. February 7, 2021. 2021
Select Academic Service
Disability Reading Group, University of Florida September 2018 - present
Executive Board and Founding Member
Graduate Assistants United, University of Florida September 2021 - present
Mental Health Committee Member
University of Florida English Graduate Organization, University of Florida March 2018 - March 2019
Secretary
Co-Organized First Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium, “Developing an Academic Persona”
ImageTexT, University of Florida August 2017 - May 2018
Copy Editor and Proofreader
Select Awards
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, University of Florida 2023
Kirkland Dissertation Fellowship, University of Florida August 2021 - May 2022
Tuition Scholarship for Graduate Studies, Kosciuszko Foundation 2021 - 2022
Regina Katharine Crandall Scholarship for excellence in writing, Bryn Mawr College 2012
Department Honors in English, Bryn Mawr College 2010
Foreign Languages
French: Fluent in oral and written expression
Latin: Proficient in reading and translation with dictionary
Spanish: Currently learning, beginner level