Dr. Elizabeth A. Wheeler

    

  Writer | Educator | Theater Director

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Don’t Just Tell Me to Breathe:

Children and teens of “the anxious generation” spill their secrets in a moving, frank, and playful graphic novel for readers ages 8-12. 

Do you have a story about anxiety to share with the world? Are you age 18 or younger? We seek more storytellers and pay $50 per interview. Storytellers: contact Harper and Betsy!

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A page from Angella's chapter of the comic. Angella is a third-grader with brown skin, glasses, and afro puffs, sitting on the couch in her living room with her mom and their two dogs. Angella is happy that third grade will be online because of the COVID epidemic, which will help her anxiety. Then, she hears sirens coming through the window, and becomes very anxious again.

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Book cover of HandiLand: the Crippest Place on Earth. The cover comic shows a colorful fantasy land: a wheelchair-accessible theme park with woods and lakes, wheelchair-accessible basketball, all-gender restrooms, and a Castle of Intersectionality.

HandiLand:

HandiLand looks at children and families with disabilities in public space and at young adult novels, fantasy series, graphic memoirs, and picture books of the last 25 years in which characters with disabilities take center stage for the first time. 

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Uncontained:

In the postwar era, racial and ideological containment dominates American urban fiction, but Elizabeth A. Wheeler revives the idea of urban space as a place of openness, challenging segregation by race, gender, and sexuality. 

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Book cover of Uncontained: Urban Fiction in Postwar America reproduces a cover from a 50's Noir detective novel, depicting two puzzle pieces. Two tense-looking white women in 50's makeup, one blond, one black-haired, are on the puzzle pieces, with the torso of a man in a suit behind them. A thumb is putting the puzzle pieces together.

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