{"id":252,"date":"2013-03-29T07:30:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T11:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/afishzon\/?page_id=252"},"modified":"2013-03-29T07:32:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T11:32:36","slug":"derritt-mason","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/worlds-of-wonder\/derritt-mason\/","title":{"rendered":"Derritt Mason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Derritt Mason<\/strong> is a Ph.D. candidate and Killam Memorial Scholar in the Department of English and Film studies at the University of Alberta.\u00a0 His dissertation draws on queer theory to examine the evolution of North American queer young adult fiction and its attending body of criticism since the publication of the first gay young adult novel in 1969.\u00a0 Derritt has published articles on anti-gay violence in Wyoming with <em>The Brock Review<\/em>, narratives of childhood and perversity with <em>Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures<\/em>, hysterical imagery in Lady Gaga\u2019s music videos with <em>Gaga Stigmata<\/em>, and he has a forthcoming piece on the relationship between the <em>It Gets Better<\/em> Youtube project and children\u2019s literature with <em>ESC: English Studies in Canada<\/em>.\u00a0 He is currently co-editing, with Ela Przybylo, a forthcoming special issue of <em>ESC<\/em> entitled \u201cHysteria Manifest: Cultural Lives of a Great Disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derritt Mason is a Ph.D. candidate and Killam Memorial Scholar in the Department of English and Film studies at the University of Alberta.\u00a0 His dissertation draws on queer theory to examine the evolution of North American queer young adult fiction and its attending body of criticism since the publication of the first gay young adult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/worlds-of-wonder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/worlds-of-wonder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/worlds-of-wonder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/worlds-of-wonder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/worlds-of-wonder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/worlds-of-wonder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/worlds-of-wonder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/worlds-of-wonder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}