Margaret M. Palmer

I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Sociology and Criminology. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2026. My research examines gender and sexuality, politics, and culture through large-scale computational analysis of literary texts and publishing data. My work appears in SSM–Qualitative Research in Health and Sexuality Research and Social Policy.

My dissertation, "Pride versus Prejudice: LGBTQ+ Young Adult Romance Fiction Production and Content in Unsettled Times," examines how young adult literature is censored, produced, and structured in response to shifting political contexts, using network analysis, time-series methods, and computational text analysis. 

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