Mapping Los Angeles in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Guaranteed session focusing on LA as a storyworld for children’s/YA narratives that have nothing to do with Hollywood, but center immigration, environmentalism, gentrification, westward expansion, etc. Send 250-word abstracts, bios. Subject line: MLA LA Proposal.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Emma K. McNamara, independent scholar (mcnamara.emma.k@gmail.com )