Rate My Professor Amy Pattee

Pattee’s research interests encompass youth librarianship, young adult literature, popular and series fiction, magazines for teenage girls, girls’ studies, and the intersections of reading and culture. She is the author of *Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel* (Routledge, 2011), *Developing Library Collections for Today’s Young Adults* (Scarecrow Press, 2013; second edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), and editor of *Critical Survey of Young Adult Literature* (Salem Press, 2016). Her peer-reviewed articles include “A story about a child is scarier than one about an adult roughly 80% of the time”: Creepypasta, children’s media, and the child in discourse (*Childhood*, 2022), “Accounting for diversity: Measuring change in the proportion of African American young adult literature” (*Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults*, 2021), and “Between youth and adulthood: Young adult and new adult literature” (*Children’s Literature Association Quarterly*, 2017). Pattee has contributed to professional journals such as *School Library Journal* and *The Horn Book Magazine*. She was appointed Co-President of the Children’s Literature Association in 2022 and has delivered presentations at conferences including the Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference.