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S4E06 Following Eliza Fenwick from London to Barbados to Niagara-on-the-Lake with Dr. Lissa Paul
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Today we meet Dr. Lissa Paul, a researcher in children's literature, who has followed the story of 19th century writer and educator Eliza Fenwick from London to Barbados to Niagara-on-the-Lake. Lissa shares who Eliza was and how researching Eliza's story lead her to stories of fugitive slaves and current efforts to decolonize the landscape by memorializing former enslaved people in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Episode Highlights
- (1:23) What is children's literature?
- (4:50) Life and times of Eliza Fenwick
- (21:20) Eliza Fenwick in Niagara-on-the-Lake
- (29:30) Researching Eliza's story
- (37:20) Digitizing the Barbados Mercury and Bridgetown Gazette and fugitive slave ads
- (47:30) Work on the so-called "Negro Burial Ground" in Niagara-on-the-Lake and decolonizing the landscape
- (1:01:01) Interdisciplinarity and the PhD program in Interdisciplinary Humanities
Lissa Paul (faculty bio)
Eliza Fenwick: Early Modern Feminist (University of Delaware Press, 2019)
Keywords for Children's Literature (New York University Press, 2021)
Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War (Routledge, 2019)
British Library Endangered Archives Programme
University of Florida Digital Library of the Caribbean
Agents of Enslavement: Colonial newspapers in the Caribbean and hidden genealogies of the enslaved.
Memorial to People in Fugitive Ads
"Project highlighting local Black history to be discussed at public event" (Brock News, 23 Feb. 2023)
"What finding the the unmarked graves of this Black cemetery adds to the story of Niagara-on-the-Lake's history" (Niagara This Week, 12 May 2022)
PhD program in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brock University
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