Central professor wins Children’s Literature Association Book Award

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Central professor wins Children’s Literature Association Book Award

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – May 1, 2026

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. – A book by Central professor Dr. Amanda Greenwell has earned the top prize from the Children’s Literature Association.

“The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature” (University Press of Mississippi, 2024) won the 2026 Children’s Literature Association’s Book Award, which recognizes outstanding book-length contributions to children's literature history, scholarship, and criticism. (Awards are given for books published two years prior to the award year.)

The Book Award Committee praised “The Child Gaze” as an innovative and interdisciplinary contribution to the field that will benefit educators, researchers, and scholars across children's literature studies, childhood studies, and the humanities.

“Using a wide variety of texts, ranging across genres, media, and time periods in US publishing for children, Greenwell’s book is well-written, effectively historicized, and brilliantly theorized, drawing as it does on childhood studies, theories of vision and power, and scholarship on contemporary American children’s literature,” the committee noted.

Greenwell is an associate professor of English and program coordinator for English Secondary Education program at Central. Her research specialties include literature written for young people and the figure of the child in U.S. literature.

Greenwell also serves as the associate editor of Children's Literature Association Quarterly.

 

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