Eileen Wallace Research Fellowship in Children's Literature

Dr. Eileen Wallace has provided funding for the purpose of research and scholarship in the field of children's literature. The award is valued up to $5,000 Canadian per annum. To be eligible for this award, an applicant must show evidence of scholarly knowledge in the field of children's literature, use UNB's Children's Literature Collection in the course of the research and acknowledge both the fellowship and the collection in any subsequent publication. Applications should be made to the Director of Libraries, University of New Brunswick by March 1st of each year.

The winner will be selected by UNB's Children's Literature Collection Committee. The committee reserves the right to make no award in any given year. Other awards may be held in conjunction with this award. Interested applicants may download an application form (pdf).

Fellowship Recipients

2007-08

Roxanne Harde, University of Alberta, Augustana Campus

Research area: 19th Century American and Canadian literature for children as it intersects with theology, activism and broader cultural contexts.

Fellowship Lecture: "Better friends": Animal Rights and the Wallace Collection

Andrea Schwenke-Wyile, Acadia University

Research area: Theorizing the picture book of ideas.

Fellowship Lecture: Content Matters: Engaging with Ideas in Picturebook Form

2006-07

No award granted

2005-2006

Michelle Superle, University College of the Fraser Valley

Research area: the repsesentation of dogs and animal rights in Canadian literature for children.

2004-05

Farah Mendlesohn, Middlesex University, Reading, UK

Research area: The cognitive demands of science fiction as a genre in relation to science fiction for children.

2003-04

Rhoda Zuk and Donna Varga, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS

Research area: Teddy Bears and Golliwogs: Racial Politics in Illustrated Books, 1895-1968

Fellowship Lecture: Wallpaper: The Persistence of Golliwogs and Symbolic Violence in Children's Book Culture

2002-03

Shelley Nelson, University of New Brunswick

Research area: The influence of turn of the century conduct novels for girls on the development of Atlantic Canadian women missionaries

Shannon Murray, University of Prince Edward Island

Research area: The intertextual traces of Pilgrim's Progress in books for children

Note: in 2002-03, the fellowship was divided among joint recipients

2001-02

Krista Johansen, Sackville, NB

Research area: Creative writer, Krista Johansen conducted research on the history of children's fantasy literature.

2000-01

Rowena Edlin White, University of Nottingham, UK

Research area: Kate Douglas Wiggins

1999-2000

Yuko Katsura, Japan

Research area: Translation of the work of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts into Japanese.

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