Article Award Committee

The ChLA Article Award is given annually by the Children's Literature Association to recognize outstanding articles of literary criticism published in English on the topic of children's literature within a given year.

Composition of the Committee
The Article Award Committee consists of six rotating members elected for three-year terms and a chair appointed by the President with the approval of the Executive Board for a term of three years. Terms begin immediately following the ChLA annual business meeting.

Committee Members

Chair: Victoria Ford Smith, University of Connecticut, 2017-2020
Tali Noiman, BMCC-CUNY, 2016-2019 
Lance Weldy, Francis Marion University, 2016-2019 
Carrie Hintz, Queen’s College and the Graduate Center, CUNY 2017-2020
Dawn Sardella-Ayres, University of Cambridge, 2017-2020
Laura Jimenez, Boston University, 2017-2020
KaaVonia Hinton, Old Dominion University, 2018-2021

 Article Award Winners