Scholarly Interests:
Visual representations of information as they apply to youth and schooling
Issues of intellectual freedom
Working with students and colleagues to develop and explore research opportunities
Select Publications
Becnel, K.E. & Moeller, R.A. (2025). Using Children’s Literature to Support Mental Health. ALA Editions.
Moeller, R. A. & K.E. Becnel. (2024). “Can we talk about these graphic novels?”: School librarians, censorship,
and comics. In D. Hartsfield & S. Hull & S. Kimmel & W. Whitaker (Eds.), Supporting students’ intellectual freedom in schools: The right to read. IGI Global.
Becnel, K.E. & Moeller, R.A. (2024). Evolving perceptions of intellectual freedom and the
right to read in library science students: An MLS program self-study. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 65(4), 426-439.
Moeller, R.A. (2023). “It’s not something I’ve really thought about ‘til now”: The social aspects of
U.S. emerging adults’ comics reading histories. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 55(1), 33-42.
Becnel, K.E. & Moeller, R.A. (2022). Graphic novels in the school library: Questions of cataloguing,
classification, and arrangement. Knowledge Organization, 49(5), 316-328.
Moeller, R.A. & Becnel, K.E. (2022). School librarians and graphic novel reading: A complicated relationship. The
Library Quarterly, 92(3), 259-273.
Moeller, R.A. (2022). “When the switch happened”: The comics reading histories of emerging adults. School
Libraries Worldwide, 27(1), 1-17.
Becnel, K.E. & Moeller, R.A. (2021). “Stepping on eggshells” and dodging that “can of worms”: Discussions of
Drama illuminate selection practices of North Carolina school librarians. Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy, 6(3), 7-18.
Moeller, R.A. & Becnel, K.E. (2021). Recommended reading: Comparing elementary and middle school library
graphic novel collections to recommended reading lists. Children & Libraries, 19(2), 6-13.
Becnel, K.E. & Moeller, R.A. (2021). A border pedagogy approach to immigrant issues through the lens of
graphic novels. Teacher Librarian, 48(4), 26-32.
Moeller, R.A. & Becnel, K.E. (2020). “They’re so stinkin’ popular, how could you say no?” Graphic novel collection development and school librarian self-censorship. The Library Quarterly, 90(4), 1-15.
Becnel, K.E. & Moeller, R.A. (2020). “I’m conflicted about my shelf of censorship”: High school library graphic novel collection development in North Carolina, USA. School Libraries Worldwide, 26(1), 124-135.