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. This award is not intended to support research toward the completion of a degree program. Applications should be made to the Dean of Libraries, University of New Brunswick by March 1st of each year.
The winner will be selected by UNB's Wallace Fellowship 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 should follow the guidelines set out in the application.
Fellowship Recipients
- 2017-18
- Helene Staveley, Memorial University
- Research Area: Depictions of play and gaming in Atlantic Canadian books for children and young adults
- 2016-17
- No fellowship awarded
- 2015-16
- Margot Stafford, Rockhurst Unversity
- Research area: the children's books of Brunswick Press, Fredericton
- 2014-15
- No fellowship awarded
- 2013-14
- Megan Swift, University of Victoria
- Research area: Illustrated literature in the Soviet Union post-Stalin
- Fellowship Lecture: Raising Tiny Comrades: Picture Books in the Soviet Union
- 2012-13
- Megan Swift, University of Victoria
- Research area: Illustrated literature under Lenin and Stalin, 1917–1953
- Fellowship Lecture: Banning Magic: The Fairy Tale Under Lenin and Stalin
- 2011-12
- Farah Mendlesohn, Middlesex University, London
- Research area: A historical survey of Canadian fantasy literature for children and young adults
- Fellowship Lecture Series:
- The enclosed child-garden of the nineteenth-century fantasy
- Escaping the influence of Narnia in the Inter-War fantasy
- Destiny and decline in the post-war fantasy
- Canadian children's fantasy: the results of research in the Wallace Collection
- 2010-11
- Vivian Howard, Dalhousie University
- Research area: Atlantic Canadian literature for children and young adults
- Fellowship Lecture: The Regional Geography of Creativity: The Impetus for Sea Stacks
- 2009-2010
- Sheree Fitch, creative writer, and Anne Hunt, University of New Brunswick
- Research area: Atlantic Canadian poetry for children
- Fellowship Lecture: Atlantic Canadian poetry for children: an interactive talk and display
- 2008-2009
- No award granted
- 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
- Note: In 2007-08, the fellowship was divided among joint recipients.
- 2006-07
- No award granted
- 2005-06
- Michelle Superle, University College of the Fraser Valley
- Research area: The representation 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
- Note: In 2003-04, the fellowship was divided among joint recipients.
- 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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