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International Committee Welcomes New Member

The ChLA International Committee is pleased to welcome a new member to our team. Carrie Anne Thomas will serve a three-year term from 2022-2025. She will join Nithya Sivashankar (chair), Anuja Madan, Vera Veldhuizen, Maria Truglio, Heather Cyr, and Deirdre H. McMahon as members of the International Committee.

The International Committee wishes to thank outgoing committee member Ada Bieber for her time and dedication over the past three years. We look forward to her continued contributions to the field of international children's literature.


Carrie Anne Thomas

Carrie Anne Thomas is a doctoral student in Teaching and Learning—Literature for Children and Young Adults with a minor in Comparative Cultural Studies at The Ohio State University. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Anderson University (Indiana) in English Language Arts Education, International Education, and English as a New Language, a master’s degree from the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, and a second master’s degree from Beijing Normal University (China) in Educational Leadership and Policy--Comparative Education. She holds a current teaching license and has taught English to all age levels (kindergarten through college) in eight countries (USA, UK, Russia, Slovakia, Austria, Kosovo, China, and Tanzania) including a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. Influenced by her diverse international experiences, C.A. Thomas’s current research interests are in linguistic pluralism and cultural diversity within children’s literature. Specifically, she focuses on the ability of multicultural and multilingual picturebooks to embody cultural values and influence intercultural curiosity and empathy. Additionally, she is interested in translingual/interlingual texts and their implicit language ideologies.

The ChLA International 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.

For more information about the International Committee, please visit our About Page.

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