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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.\n\xa0\nEpisode Highlights\n\n(1:23) What is children's literature?\n(4:50) Life and times of Eliza Fenwick\n(21:20) Eliza Fenwick in Niagara-on-the-Lake\n(29:30) Researching Eliza's story\n(37:20) Digitizing the Barbados Mercury\xa0and\xa0Bridgetown Gazette\xa0and fugitive slave ads\n(47:30) Work on the so-called "Negro Burial Ground" in Niagara-on-the-Lake and decolonizing the landscape\n(1:01:01) Interdisciplinarity and the PhD program in Interdisciplinary Humanities\n\nLinks\nLissa Paul (faculty bio)\nEliza Fenwick: Early Modern Feminist\xa0(University of Delaware Press, 2019)\nKeywords for Children's Literature\xa0(New York University Press, 2021)\nChildren\u2019s Literature and Culture of the\xa0First World War (Routledge, 2019)\nBritish Library Endangered Archives Programme\nUniversity of Florida Digital Library of the Caribbean\nAgents of Enslavement: Colonial newspapers in the Caribbean and hidden genealogies of the enslaved.\xa0\nMemorial to People in Fugitive Ads\n"Project highlighting local Black history to be discussed at public event" (Brock News, 23 Feb. 2023)\n"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)\nPhD program in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brock University\n\xa0\nRelated Episodes\nS4E05 Archives & Special Collections with David Sharron\nS1E03 Early Modern Bookscapes with Dr. Leah Knight\n\xa0\nCredits\nThank you for listening to Foreword!\xa0\nFind our footnotes, links to more information, transcripts, and past episodes on our website\xa0brocku.ca/humanities.\xa0\nWe love to hear from our listeners! Join us on\xa0Twitter\xa0and\xa0Instagram\xa0@brockhumanities.\xa0\nPlease subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app\xa0so you don\u2019t miss an episode.\xa0\nForeword\xa0is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.\xa0\nSeries four sound editing is by\xa0Serena Atallah. Theme music is by\xa0Khalid Imam.\xa0\nThis podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.