Dr Leah Phillips
@Le_phill
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Senior Lecturer & Programme Leader for the BA English & MA ChYA at @marjonuni. Author of Female Heroes in YA Fantasy, Founder of @YAStudiesAssoc. Views my own.
Joined January 2013
The YASA Theory Reading Group is 💥BACK💥 this coming Thursday, 11 September, at 6pm GMT over Zoom. Come join us to discuss Bonnie Kneen's "The Desiring Girl in South African Young Adult Fiction." See you there!
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#CFP: "Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People" Online conference 11-12 February 2026 University of Münster Deadline: 31st August 2025 Website: https://t.co/rgXxDUylWd
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The first panel of YASA's Seminar Series is next week- Beth Kemp and Supriya Baijal (@baijal_supriya) will be ringing in the 2025 Seminar season for us on 16 June, 2025 at 11:00 GMT. Hope to see you there!
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I'm not retweeting it, but... Do they not realise that red lightsabers are the lightsabers of the bad guys????
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YASA members! The YASA Seminar Series 2025 is on the horizon. ☀️ Like the YASA conference, this is a great opportunity to explore emerging ideas and new directions with an audience of fellow YA studies scholars. Deadline to apply is 27 April 2025. Application form in bio!😊
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Don't forget to register by 21st midnight IST!! The first talk in our Speaker Series is almost here!
The first talk in ACLiSA's Speaker Series with Dr. Siddharth Pandey. Date: 22nd March 2025 Time: 9.30 p.m. IST/9.00 a.m. PT Venue: Online To register, please scan the QR Code on the poster. Registration ends on 20th March. For further information: https://t.co/SwCWEiSjMH
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Upcoming conference: Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children's and Young Adult Literature. 💻 Online 🗓️ 12-14 November 2025 🚨 Deadline for proposals 2 May 2025 More details here: https://t.co/D4CoIa4400
@uni_muenster @chlatweets @IRSCL_News @YAStudiesAssoc @mother_net
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YASA's Theory Reading Group returns this Thursday, 13 Feb. @7pm GMT. Come join us! 😊 And keep an eye out for the full 2025 theory group schedule next week 👀🕵️
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Congrats to @storyriver and @clpe1 on the excellent annual #ReflectingRealities report. Sadly, the significant drop in representation is what many of us feared/predicted would happen. Let this be a wake-up call for publishers to stay committed to truly representing all of society
🔊 Our 7th annual #ReflectingRealities report is out now! This year’s report shows a significant drop in the presence of racially minoritised characters in books published for children in 2023 in the UK.
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Thought I’d make this even easier…
Come find me on the bluer skies place. I’m there as lephill 😊 I’ve not been overly active here for a while, but I’m finding all sorts of joy and delightful chatter. It’s all new and shiny! (Let’s not break it)
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I am thrilled to announce that the Adaptation and Childhood special issue of the journal Adaptation that I guest edited with @HuntsLeine is now live! Come read all about how children's literature and the very concept of childhood get adapted across media: https://t.co/TcpJcyvsCj
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📢EVENT ALERT📢 Where? @UofGlasgow When? 3rd April 2025 We are ecstatic to launch the #CfP for our upcoming #symposium: '#Publishing #Fantasy for Younger Readers' featuring a #keynote by the fantastic @FrancesHardinge! #Glasgow #WhatsOnGlasgow #Academia #Conference
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Come find me on the bluer skies place. I’m there as lephill 😊 I’ve not been overly active here for a while, but I’m finding all sorts of joy and delightful chatter. It’s all new and shiny! (Let’s not break it)
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Every groundbreaking discovery in science started with someone willing to challenge their own assumptions. Your next literature review could be the one that changes everything. Your academic work needs to fight confirmation bias. It's blocking you from great research. And it's
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🥹😍🥹😍 I’m tied up in too many work things to participate as I wanted to … but there aren’t enough words to express how ridiculously proud I am of the whole @YAStudiesAssoc team!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Tomorrow is the first day of the YASA 2024 conference! This week, we will be posting a conference schedule each night so you can save or screenshot the next day's events and make sure you don't miss out on any of the awesome events, panels, or roundtables. See you tomorrow! ☺️
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In addition to the Publishing Fantasy for Younger Readers symposium, we have a couple of other fantastic FREE ChYALit-related events @UofGEducation @UofGlasgow in November and December. ⬇️
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Academic jargon is suffocating your understanding of concepts. Your writing lacks depth because you don't understand these terms. I've got your solution: Repost & reply 🎓 I'll DM you this handy guide in Google Sheets to explain scientific terminology (must be following).
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Gov. Walz: We just found out Trump had his branded Bibles printed in China. This dude will even outsource God. But hey, I don’t blame Trump for not noticing the ‘Made in China’ sticker. They put them on the inside, a part of the Bible that he’s never looked at
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