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Lissa Paul is a Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. Her work bridges literary scholarship and educational theory, focusing on children’s literature, cultural studies, and eighteenth-century Caribbean history. She has authored or edited seven books, contributed to nineteen edited volumes, and published extensively in international journals.
Research interests include children’s literature, gender studies, post-colonial discourse, and migration studies. Her SSHRC-funded research on Eliza Fenwick (1766–1840) examines the life and letters of this British author and teacher who migrated to Upper Canada via Barbados, New York, and New Haven. This work intersects with her broader exploration of colonial history and the digitization of endangered archives like the Barbados Mercury Gazette.
Scientific awards and grants include founding the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry (2005), a Lucy Cavendish College Visiting Fellowship (Fall 2013), and multiple research grants, such as a SSHRC Insight Grant (2016–2021) and a British Library Endangered Archives Programme Grant (2017) to digitize the Barbados Mercury Gazette. She has also edited Lion and the Unicorn and co-edited the second edition of Keywords for Children’s Literature (2019).
