Department of English

Victor Malo

ProfessorVictor Malo
Undergraduate Coordinator
Morton Hall 132
(910) 962-3597
malov@uncw.edu

Degrees

Ed.D., Florida International University
Ed.S., Florida International University
M.S., Florida International University
B.F.A., University of Miami

Academic Interests

Victor is a former middle school teacher and current Professor of English Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where he teaches courses in writing for secondary teachers, young adult literature, and mythology.  He has co-edited multiple books such as Shakespeare and Young Adult Literature: Pairing and Teaching, Canonical and Young Adult Literature: Pairing and Teaching, Vols I & II, Breaking the Taboo with Young Adult Literature, Critical Explorations of Young Adult Literature: Identifying and Critiquing the Canon, and Critical Approaches to Teaching the High School Novel: Reinterpreting Canonical Literature, as well as the forthcoming Disaster Pedagogy for Higher Education.  His scholarship has been published in journals such as Research in the Teaching of English, Teachers College Record, English Journal, Teaching and Teacher Education, The ALAN Review, Journal of Language and Literacy Education, and Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature. Victor is on the board of the directors of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE as well as the editorial boards of English Journal and Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature. He has appeared on NPR and in The New York Times discussing his research on the young adult novel Speak and adolescents’ attitudes toward date rape.  Victor is currently editing The Oxford Handbook of Young Adult Literature.

Awards: 

  • Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award. 2021.
  • Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award. 2021.
  • Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award. 2020.
  • Distinguished Scholarly Engagement and Public Service Award – Junior Scholar. 2016.
  • Discere Aude Award. 2015.

Courses Taught

ENG 101 College Reading and Writing I
ENG 110 Introduction to Literature
ENG 201 College Reading and Writing II
ENG 210 Mythology
ENG 304 Writing for Teachers
ENG 381 Literature for Young Adults
ENG 383 Classics Reconsidered
ENG 385 Multicultural Young Adult Literature
ENG 555 Politics of English Education
ENG 556 Qualitative Research in English Studies
ENG 564 Studies in Children’s/Young Adult Literature

Recent Publications

Books

  • Malo-Juvera, V., & Hill, C. (Eds.). (2024). The Oxford Handbook of Young Adult Literature. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. In progress.
  • Malo-Juvera, V., & Laudadio, N. (Eds.). (2022). The Handbook of Disaster Pedagogy. Lanham: MD: Rowman & Littlefield. In press.
  • Malo-Juvera, V., Greathouse, P., & Eisenbach, B. (Eds.). (2021). Shakespeare and Young Adult Literature: Pairing and Teaching. Lanham: MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Greathouse, P. & Malo-Juvera, V. (Eds.). (2021). Canonical and Young Adult Literature: Pairing and Teaching, Vol I. Lanham: MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Greathouse, P. & Malo-Juvera, V. (Eds.). (2021). Canonical and Young Adult Literature: Pairing and Teaching, Vol II. Lanham: MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Malo-Juvera, V., & Hill, C. (Eds.). (2020). Critical Explorations of Young Adult Literature: Identifying and Critiquing the Canon. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Malo-Juvera, V., & Greathouse, P. (Eds.). (2020). Breaking the Taboo with Young Adult Literature. Lanham: MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Hill, C. & Malo-Juvera, V. (Eds.). (2019). Critical approaches to teaching the high school novel: Reinterpreting canonical literature. New York, NY: Routledge.

 Articles and Book Chapters  

  • Powell, R. & Malo-Juvera, V. (2021). “Critical Consciousness” in Powell, R. & Cantrell, S. (eds.) Framing Culturally Responsive Instruction: Implementing the CRIOP Model in K-8 Classrooms. Gorham, ME: Myers Education Press.
  • Malo-Juvera, V. & Hill, C. (2019). “The Young Adult Canon: A Literary Solar System” in Malo-Juvera, V. and Crag Hill (Eds.) Critical Explorations of Canonical Young Adult Literature: Identifying and Critiquing the Canon. New York: Routledge. 
  • Hill, C. & Malo-Juvera, V. (2018). “The Center of the Canon: The High School Classroom” in Hill, C. and Victor Malo-Juvera (Eds.) Critical Approaches to Teaching the High School Novel: Reinterpreting Canonical Literature. New York: Routledge.
  • Malo-Juvera, V., Correll, P., & Cantrell, S. (2018). A mixed methods investigation of teachers' self-efficacy for culturally responsive instruction.
Teaching and Teacher Education, 74, 146-156.  
  • Malo-Juvera, V. (2018). Teaching Geography Club to reduce homophobia and bullying. In P. Greathouse, B. Eisenbach, & J. Kaywell (Eds.), Queer adolescent literature as a complement to the English language arts curriculum (pp. 17-28). Lanham: MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 
  • Malo-Juvera, V. (2018).  Who decides what you can teach? The ALAN Review, 45(3), 90-97.
  • Malo-Juvera, V. (2017). A postcolonial primer with multicultural YA literature. English Journal, 107(1), 41-47. 
  • Malo-Juvera, V., & Gill, D. (2017).  Writing across identity elements: An interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, William Alexander, and Kekla Magoon. The ALAN Review, 45(2), 74-79. 
  • Malo-Juvera, V., & Scherff, L. (2017).  Standardized censorship. The ALAN Review, 45(1), 91-97.
  • Malo-Juvera, V. (2016). The effect of an LGBTQ themed literary instructional unit on adolescents’ homophobia. Study and Scrutiny: Research in Young Adult Literature, 2(1), 1 - 34. 
  • Powell, R., Cantrell, S., Malo-Juvera, V., & Correll, P. (2016). Operationalizing culturally responsive instruction: Preliminary findings of CRIOP research. Teachers College Record, 118(1).
  • Malo-Juvera, V., & Spears-Bunton, L. (2015). A qualitative analysis of high school students’ engagement with poetry and social justice. Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 11(2), 1 - 22. 
  • Malo-Juvera, V. (2015). A mixed methods study of pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward LGBTQ themed literature. Study and Scrutiny: Research in Young Adult Literature, 1(1), 1 - 45.
  • Malo-Juvera, V. (2014). Speaking to the classics. SIGNAL Journal, 37, 7 - 11.
  • Malo-Juvera, V. (2014). Speak: The effect of literary instruction on adolescents' rape myth acceptance. Research in the Teaching of English, 48(4), 404-427.
  • Malo-Juvera, V. (2014). Cultural hegemony and censorship. Journal of Language and Literacy Education. [Online]. Retrieved from http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/
  • Malo-Juvera, V. (2013).Traditional and tragic heroes: Using archetypal analysis to introduce students to critical lenses.SIGNAL Journal, 36(2), 6-11.