IRSCL Board 2025

  • President

    Sara Pankenier Weld
    Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
    Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
    University of California, Santa Barbara
    CA 93106
    USA
    Email: saraweld@ucsb.edu

  • Vice-President and Membership Coordinator

    Vanessa Joosen
    Professor of English literature and children’s literature
    Faculty of Arts, Department of Literature
    University of Antwerp
    Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp
    Belgium
    Email: vanessa.joosen@uantwerpen.be

  • Treasurer

    Nicola Daly
    Associate Professor
    Co-director Waikato Picturebook Research Unit
    Te Kura Toi Tangata
    University of Waikato
    Hamilton 3240
    New Zealand
    Email: nicola.daly@waikato.ac.nz

  • Awards and Grants Coordinator & Accessibility Coordinator

    박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen
    Associate Professor
    School of Information Sciences
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    501 E. Daniel St.
    Champaign, IL 61820
    USA
    Email: spdahlen@illinois.edu

  • Secretary and Media Manager

    Philip Nel
    University Distinguished Professor
    Director, Program in Children's Literature
    Dept. of English, 103 ECS Bldg.
    1612 Steam Place
    Kansas State University
    Manhattan, KS 66506-6501,
    USA
    Email: philnel@ksu.edu

  • Mentoring Coordinator

    Yasmine Motawy
    Senior Instructor II at the Department of Rhetoric and Composition
    Office P111 Alwaleed Building
    The American University in Cairo
    1 AUC Avenue, New Cairo 11835
    Egypt
    Email: ymotawy@aucegypt.edu

  • Congress Convener

    Aline Frederico
    School of Communications and Arts
    University of São Paulo
    Av. Prof. Lúcio Martins Rodrigues, 443
    São Paulo - SP, 05508-020
    Brazil
    Email: aline.frederico@usp.br