LRA AREA CHAIRS
(Area Chair Terms are for 3 years)

Area 1. Pre-service Teacher Education in Literacy

Melissa Mosley Wetzel	The University of Texas at Austin	[email protected]	2016-2018
Jennifer Danridge Turner	University of Maryland College Park	[email protected]	2018-2020
Darrell Hucks	Keene State College	[email protected]	2018-2020
Noah Golden	Chapman University	[email protected]	2018-2020

Area 2. In-service Teacher Education/Professional Development in Literacy

Judson Laughter	University of Tennessee – Knoxville	[email protected]	2016-2018
Courtney Kelly	Manhattanville College	[email protected]	2016-2018
Mary McGriff	New Jersey City University	[email protected]	2016-2018
Marva Solomon	Angelo State University	[email protected]	2016-2018
Kirsten Hill	University of Michigan-Dearborn	[email protected]	2018-2020

Area 3. Literacy Instruction and Literacy Learning

Keonghee Tao Han	University of Wyoming	[email protected]	2016-2018
Jacqueline Lynch	Florida International University	j[email protected]	2016-2018
Katherine Frankel	Boston University	[email protected]	2017-2019
Evan Ortlieb	St. John’s University	[email protected]	2018-2020
Jennifer Roswell	Brock University	[email protected]	2018-2020

Area 4. Literacy Assessment, Evaluation, and Public Policy

Area 5. Early and Elementary Literacy Processes

Area 6. Adolescent, College, and Adult Literacy Processes

Carol Delaney	Texas State University	[email protected]	2016-2018
Heidi Bacon	Southern Illinois University - Carbondale	[email protected]	2016-2018
Jody Polleck	Hunter College	[email protected]	2018-2020
Jill Castek	University of Arizona	[email protected]	2018-2020

Area 7. Social, Cultural, and Political Issues of Literacy Practices In and Out of School

Kate Pahl	University of Sheffield	[email protected]	2016-2018
Lenny Sánchez	University of South Carolina	[email protected]	2016-2018
Judith Dunkerly-Bean	Old Dominion University	[email protected]	2017-2019
Maisha T. Winn	University of California, Davis	[email protected]	2018-2020
Melody Zoch	University of North Carolina, Greensboro	[email protected]	2018-2020

Area 8. Literacy Learning and Practice in Multilingual and Multicultural Settings

Mariana Pacheco	University of Wisconsin-Madison	[email protected]	2016-2018
Julie Pennington	University of Nevada-Reno	[email protected]	2016-2018
Kwangok Song	Arkansas State University	[email protected]	2017-2019
Ting Yuan	City University of New York	[email protected]	2018-2020

Area 9. Text Analysis/Children’s, Young Adult, and Adult Literature

Area 10. Literacy Technology and Media

Area 11. Research Theory, Methods, and Practices

Kristin Conradi	The College of William and Mary	[email protected]	2016-2018
Danny Martinez	UC Davis	[email protected]	2017-2019
Joseph Rumenapp	Judson University	[email protected]	2017-2019

Area 12. International Research on Literacy Teaching and Learning

Area 13. Study Groups

Keisha Green	University of Massachusetts Amherst	[email protected]	2018-2020
Meghan Barnes	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	[email protected]	2018-2020

Area 14. Other Topics

Candace Kuby	University of Missouri-Columbia	[email protected]	2016-2018
Bong Gee Jang	Syracuse University	[email protected]	2017-2019

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