announced by the RSC on Sept. 5<\/a>.<\/p>\nPaul is the second Fellow to be elected to the RSC from Brock\u2019s Department of English Language and Literature, joining RSC Fellow and Professor of English Elizabeth Sauer in the distinguished recognition.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am thrilled; joining The Royal Society of Canada is an honour,\u201d Paul said. \u201cIt is wonderful to know that the kind of work I do \u2014 that I think needs to be done, and I love to do \u2014 is contributing to a common good in society.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paul\u2019s scholarly work is engaged with transnational histories, feminist theory, 18th-century studies, children\u2019s literature and poetry, literacy education and studies in enslavement and abolition.<\/p>\n
In reflecting on her academic path, Paul said that her work and research have been an evolution, one idea leading to the next.<\/p>\n
Through her doctoral work on Ted Hughes (1930-1998), a children\u2019s poet who would later become a Poet Laureate in the U.K., Paul became an expert in children\u2019s literature. Paul developed a specialization in poetry for children demonstrated by her involvement with Johns Hopkins University Press journal The Lion and the Unicorn<\/em>, as editor for many years, and establishing an award for children\u2019s poetry.<\/p>\nAs part of a recent Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant, Paul has been investigating and championing the work of 18th-century author Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840), uncovering her life story and impact on children\u2019s literature.<\/p>\n
By discovering Fenwick\u2019s unreferenced letters in archives in Niagara and Toronto, Paul is sharing the author\u2019s commentary on the sociopolitical environment in 18th-century England through a recently-submitted two-volume edition of her letters (1797-1840). Paul\u2019s first monograph on Fenwick, The Children\u2019s Book Business: Lessons from the Long Eighteenth Century<\/em> was published in 2011 and her biography, Eliza Fenwick: Early Modern Feminist,<\/em> in 2019.<\/p>\nPaul\u2019s research into Fenwick\u2019s life, including her time living in Barbados (1814-1822), evolved into her leading an initiative to digitize two endangered colonial newspapers, The Barbados Mercury and Bridgetown Gazette<\/em> and The Barbadian<\/em>. Both were eventually funded by British Library Endangered Archives Program grants.<\/p>\n\u201cThese digital records are now being referenced for historical podcasts in Barbados, as well as serving as a resource for the British Library\u2019s crowd-sourced \u2018Agents of Enslavement\u2019 project designed to create a database for the fugitive slave ads,\u201d Paul said. \u201cThese are stories that need to be told.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a new Fellow of the RSC, Paul looks forward to continuing her work in making public authors and poets whose work and lives greatly contributed to society and culture, especially closer to home in Niagara, while exposing graduate students to professional learning and development opportunities in their scholarly fields.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing elected to the Royal Society of Canada, the highest research recognition in the country by a college of peers, is a tremendous achievement,\u201d said Brock University Vice-President, Research Tim Kenyon.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe congratulate Lissa Paul on her impressive academic research, including the national and international impact of her work in children\u2019s literature and literacy education, as well as her tireless commitment to sharing the untold stories of historically under-represented or marginalized groups.\u201d<\/p>\n
New RSC Fellows will be inducted on Friday, Nov. 17, celebrating their outstanding and scholarly achievement.<\/p>\n
The Royal Society of Canada<\/a>: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada was established in 1882 as the senior Canadian collegium of distinguished scholars, artists and scientists. The primary objective of the society is to promote learning and research in the arts, the humanities and the natural and social sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brock University\u2019s Lissa Paul has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the country\u2019s top academic body honouring career achievement in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":87842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7484,7,3319,37,1,4,5],"tags":[30,5906,894,2058,1295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87843,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87841\/revisions\/87843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}