Galway, Elizabeth
Faculty
- Phone
- (403) 329-2374
- elizabeth.galway@uleth.ca
About Me
Elizabeth Galway is Professor and former Chair of English at the University of Lethbridge where she is Director of the Institute for Child and Youth Studies (I-CYS) and Board of Governors Research Chair (Tier 1) in Children's Literature and Culture.
Biography
Elizabeth Galway holds degrees from the University of Toronto, Durham University, and the University of Exeter.
Current Research
| Title |
Location |
Principal Investigator | Co-Researchers | Grant Agency |
Grant Amount |
Grant Time Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young Canada Goes to War | Elizabeth Galway, University of Lethbridge | |||||
| Young Canada Goes to War | Elizabeth Galway, University of Lethbridge | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | $54,855 | 2008-11 | ||
| Representations of the Ancient Near East in Children's Literature | Elizabeth Galway and Kevin McGeough, University of Lethbridge | |||||
| Representations of the Ancient Near East in Children's Literature | Elizabeth Galway and Kevin McGeough, University of Lethbridge | SSHRC Insight Grant | $105,378 | |||
| Representations of the Ancient World in Children's Literature | Elizabeth Galway and Kevin McGeough, University of Lethbridge | Internal SSHRC Grant | $4500 | |||
| Institute for Child and Youth Studies: Research Dissemination and Outreach | University of Lethbridge | |||||
| Institute for Child and Youth Studies: Research Dissemination and Outreach | University of Lethbridge | Strategic Opportunities Fund | $15, 500 | 2018 | ||
| Representations of the Ancient World in Children's Literature | Elizabeth Galway and Kevin McGeough, University of Lethbridge |
Previous Research
| Title | Grant Agency | Completion Date |
| Young Canada Goes to War | University of Lethbridge Internal SSHRC Fund | 2008 |
| Literary Borders: The Influence of American Publishers on Canadian Children's Literature, 1890-1915 | University of Lethbridge Research Fund Envelope | 2007 |
Publications
PEER REVIEWED MONOGRAPHS
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The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children's Literature: Farmer, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Children's Literature and Culture. Eds. Kenneth Kidd and Elizabeth Marshall. New York: Routledge, March 2022.
From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity. Children's Literature and Culture. Ed. Jack Zipes. New York: Routledge, 2008.
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND BOOK CHAPTERS
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"Excavating Ur in Children's Literature." Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE: Proceedings of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Philadelphia July 11-15, 2016. Eds. Grant Frame et al. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns-Penn State UP, 2021. 315-328. (Co-authored with Kevin McGeough).
"A 'School of Arms': Teaching Children's Book Culture of the First World War." Teaching Representations of World War One. Eds. Debra Rae Cohen and Douglas Higbee. MLA's Options for Teaching Series. MLA, 2017. 221-227.
"What Shall We Tell the Children? Narratives of War in First World War Children's Literature." Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War: That Better Whiles May Follow Worse. Eds. David Owen and Cristina Pividori. Rodopi-Brill, 2016: 237-251.
"Border Crossings: Depictions of Canadian-American Relations in First World War Children's Literature." Lion and the Unicorn. 39:1 (January 2015): 100-115.
"The Hope of the World? The Figure of the Child in WWI Children's Literature." Politics and Ideology in Children's Literature. Studies in Children's Literature. Eds. Áine McGillicuddy and Marian Keyes. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014: 104-114.
"Nursery Rhymes." In Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies. Ed. Heather Montgomery. New York: Oxford UP, June 25, 2013.
"Competing Representations of Boy Soldiers in First World War Children's Literature." Children in Armed Conflicts. Spec. issue of Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice24:3 (September 2012): 298-304.
"How to Make Good Subjects: Guiding Girls, Creating Citizens, Constructing Consumers." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 4:1 (2012):107-118. (First author. Co-authored with Louise Barrett and Jan Newberry).
"Reminders of Rugby in the Halls of Hogwarts: The Insidious Influence of the School Story Genre on the Works of J.K. Rowling." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 37:1 (Spring 2012): 63-82.
"Changing Faces: The Troublesome Search for Identity in Jack Hodgins' Innocent Cities." In Jack Hodgins: Essays on His Works. Writers Series. Ed. Annika Hannan. Toronto: Guernica, 2010: 163-195.
"'Working Egyptians of the World Unite!' How Edith Nesbit Used Near Eastern Archaeology and Children's Literature to Effect Social Change." In World of Women in the Ancient and Classical Near East. Ed. Beth Alpert Nakhai. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009: 181-202. (Co-authored with Kevin McGeough).
"Windows on the World: Canadian Publishers Offer Global Perspectives on Childhood." Canadian Children's Literature 33:1 (Spring 2007): 123-144.
"'A Young Canadian's Manly Stand': Canadian Nationalism and Anti-American Sentiment in Margaret MacTavish's Short Story." Short Story: Tripping Across the 49th Parallel 13:1 (2005): 47-60.
"Poetical Patriotism: Canadian Children's Poetry and Nationalist Discourse in the Late Victorian Period." Victorians Institute Journal: Poetry and the Colonies32 (2004): 37-62.
"Fact, Fiction, and the Tradition of Historical Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Children's Literature." Canadian Children's Literature 27:2 (2001): 20-32.
ENTRIES IN REFERENCE WORKS
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"Children's Poetry." The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Eds. Lesa Scholl and Emily Morris. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. (published online March 27, 2020).
"The Story of the Amulet (Nesbit)." The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Eds. Lesa Scholl and Emily Morris. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. (published online August 19, 2019).
"Sam Slick". The Student's Companion to American Literary Characters. Ed. Judith S. Baughman. Columbia: BCL-Manly, 2008: 466-468.
"The Wood Carver's Wife." Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Eds. Gabrielle Cody and Evert Sprinchorn. New York: Columbia UP, 2007: 1490.
"Developments in Anglophone Canadian Literature." Twentieth-Century World History: A Canadian Perspective. 1stCanadian Edition. Eds. William Duiker and Bessma Momani. Toronto: Thomson-Nelson, 2006: 187-188.
BOOK REVIEWS
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Rev. of British Children's Literature and the First World War: Representations Since 1914 by David Budgen. First World War Studies 11:2 (2020): 206-208. (published online November 9, 2020).
"Reading Tales from Antiquity in Childhood." Rev. of Childhood and the Classics. Britain and America, 1850-1965 by S. Murnaghan and D.H. Roberts. Pp. Xvi 336, Ills, Colour Pls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. The Classical Review 69:2 (October 2019): 649-651. Available at:
Rev. of In the Name of the Mother: Reflections on Writers and Empire by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 4.1 (January 2017): 144-145.
"First Opinion: Naughty or Nice? Didacticism and Humor in Josh Schneider's The Meanest Birthday Girl." First Opinions, Second Reactions 6.3 (December 2013): 30-32. Available at:
Rev. of Childhood Pleasures: Dutch Children in the Seventeenth Century by Donna R. Barnes and Peter G. Rose. Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies 33:1 (2012): 65-68. (Issue published December, 2013).
"Pictures and Profits." Rev. of Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing by Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 209 (Summer 2011): 156-157.
"Teen Wives and Mothers." Rev. of The Lit Report by Sarah Harvey and Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 203 (Winter 2009): 154-155.
"At the Water's Edge." Rev. of Mud Girl by Alison Acheson and Mundy Pond by Roger Maunder. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 197 (Summer 2008): 113-114.
"Making Connections." Rev. of Rex Zero, King of Nothing by Tim Wynne-Jones and The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane by Polly Horvath. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 197 (Summer 2008): 143-144.
"Suffer the Children." Rev. of Safe House by James Heneghan and 1212: Year of the Journey by Kathleen McDonnell. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 194 (Autumn 2007): 133-134.
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The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children's Literature: Farmer, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Children's Literature and Culture. Eds. Kenneth Kidd and Elizabeth Marshall. New York: Routledge, March 2022.
From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity. Children's Literature and Culture. Ed. Jack Zipes. New York: Routledge, 2008.
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND BOOK CHAPTERS
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Excavating Ur in Children's Literature." Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE: Proceedings of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Philadelphia July 11-15, 2016. Eds. Grant Frame et al. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns-Penn State UP, 2021. 315-328. (Co-authored with Kevin McGeough).
"A 'School of Arms': Teaching Children's Book Culture of the First World War." Teaching Representations of World War One. Eds. Debra Rae Cohen and Douglas Higbee. MLA's Options for Teaching Series. MLA, 2017. 221-227.
"What Shall We Tell the Children? Narratives of War in First World War Children's Literature." Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War: That Better Whiles May Follow Worse. Eds. David Owen and Cristina Pividori. Rodopi-Brill, 2016: 237-251.
"Border Crossings: Depictions of Canadian-American Relations in First World War Children's Literature." Lion and the Unicorn. 39:1 (January 2015): 100-115.
"The Hope of the World? The Figure of the Child in WWI Children's Literature." Politics and Ideology in Children's Literature. Studies in Children's Literature. Eds. Áine McGillicuddy and Marian Keyes. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014: 104-114.
"Nursery Rhymes." In Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies. Ed. Heather Montgomery. New York: Oxford UP, June 25, 2013.
"Competing Representations of Boy Soldiers in First World War Children's Literature." Children in Armed Conflicts. Spec. issue of Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice24:3 (September 2012): 298-304.
"How to Make Good Subjects: Guiding Girls, Creating Citizens, Constructing Consumers." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 4:1 (2012):107-118. (First author. Co-authored with Louise Barrett and Jan Newberry).
"Reminders of Rugby in the Halls of Hogwarts: The Insidious Influence of the School Story Genre on the Works of J.K. Rowling." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 37:1 (Spring 2012): 63-82.
"Changing Faces: The Troublesome Search for Identity in Jack Hodgins' Innocent Cities." In Jack Hodgins: Essays on His Works. Writers Series. Ed. Annika Hannan. Toronto: Guernica, 2010: 163-195.
"'Working Egyptians of the World Unite!' How Edith Nesbit Used Near Eastern Archaeology and Children's Literature to Effect Social Change." In World of Women in the Ancient and Classical Near East. Ed. Beth Alpert Nakhai. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009: 181-202. (Co-authored with Kevin McGeough).
"Windows on the World: Canadian Publishers Offer Global Perspectives on Childhood." Canadian Children's Literature 33:1 (Spring 2007): 123-144.
"'A Young Canadian's Manly Stand': Canadian Nationalism and Anti-American Sentiment in Margaret MacTavish's Short Story." Short Story: Tripping Across the 49th Parallel 13:1 (2005): 47-60.
"Poetical Patriotism: Canadian Children's Poetry and Nationalist Discourse in the Late Victorian Period." Victorians Institute Journal: Poetry and the Colonies32 (2004): 37-62.
"Fact, Fiction, and the Tradition of Historical Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Children's Literature." Canadian Children's Literature 27:2 (2001): 20-32.
ENTRIES IN REFERENCE WORKS
----------------------------------------------
"Children's Poetry." The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Eds. Lesa Scholl and Emily Morris. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. (published online March 27, 2020).
"The Story of the Amulet (Nesbit)." The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Eds. Lesa Scholl and Emily Morris. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. (published online August 19, 2019).
"Sam Slick". The Student's Companion to American Literary Characters. Ed. Judith S. Baughman. Columbia: BCL-Manly, 2008: 466-468.
"The Wood Carver's Wife." Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Eds. Gabrielle Cody and Evert Sprinchorn. New York: Columbia UP, 2007: 1490.
"Developments in Anglophone Canadian Literature." Twentieth-Century World History: A Canadian Perspective. 1stCanadian Edition. Eds. William Duiker and Bessma Momani. Toronto: Thomson-Nelson, 2006: 187-188.
BOOK REVIEWS
__________________________
Rev. of British Children's Literature and the First World War: Representations Since 1914 by David Budgen. First World War Studies 11:2 (2020): 206-208. (published online November 9, 2020).
"Reading Tales from Antiquity in Childhood." Rev. of Childhood and the Classics. Britain and America, 1850-1965 by S. Murnaghan and D.H. Roberts. Pp. Xvi 336, Ills, Colour Pls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. The Classical Review 69:2 (October 2019): 649-651. Available at:
Rev. of In the Name of the Mother: Reflections on Writers and Empire by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 4.1 (January 2017): 144-145.
"First Opinion: Naughty or Nice? Didacticism and Humor in Josh Schneider's The Meanest Birthday Girl." First Opinions, Second Reactions 6.3 (December 2013): 30-32. Available at:
Rev. of Childhood Pleasures: Dutch Children in the Seventeenth Century by Donna R. Barnes and Peter G. Rose. Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies 33:1 (2012): 65-68. (Issue published December, 2013).
"Pictures and Profits." Rev. of Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing by Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 209 (Summer 2011): 156-157.
"Teen Wives and Mothers." Rev. of The Lit Report by Sarah Harvey and Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 203 (Winter 2009): 154-155.
"At the Water's Edge." Rev. of Mud Girl by Alison Acheson and Mundy Pond by Roger Maunder. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 197 (Summer 2008): 113-114.
"Making Connections." Rev. of Rex Zero, King of Nothing by Tim Wynne-Jones and The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane by Polly Horvath. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 197 (Summer 2008): 143-144.
"Suffer the Children." Rev. of Safe House by James Heneghan and 1212: Year of the Journey by Kathleen McDonnell. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 194 (Autumn 2007): 133-134.
Degrees
PhD (English), University of Exeter; MA (English Studies), Durham University; Honours BA (English & Classical Civilizations), University of Toronto
Research Interests
Children's literature; 19th-century literature; Canadian literature; national identities; WWI studies; Canadian childhoods; landscape and literature; British imperial fiction; interdisciplinary child and youth studies.
In The Media
"I, Object! Ian Hislop's Search for Dissent: The Awkward Squad." BBC Radio 4. Producer: Tom Alban (August 29, 2018)
"Hidden Paths, Tangled Woods and Interesting Play Spaces" Southern Alberta Magazine 5:2 (Spring 2014)
"5 Questions with Dr. Elizabeth Galway" The Legend 12:10 (June 2013): 7.
"Galway Delves Into the Power of Literature." The Legend 9:4 (December 2009): 3.
Wong, Jessica. "Rejuvenile: Celebrating the Kid Inside." Indepth: CBC News Online. July 30, 2004. .
"Hidden Paths, Tangled Woods and Interesting Play Spaces" Southern Alberta Magazine 5:2 (Spring 2014)
"5 Questions with Dr. Elizabeth Galway" The Legend 12:10 (June 2013): 7.
"Galway Delves Into the Power of Literature." The Legend 9:4 (December 2009): 3.
Wong, Jessica. "Rejuvenile: Celebrating the Kid Inside." Indepth: CBC News Online. July 30, 2004. .
Research Areas
Canadian literature
children's literature
First World War
national identities
Previous Research Areas
national identities
nineteenth-century literature
imperialism and nationalism
children's literature
Canadian literature
nineteenth-century literature
imperialism and nationalism
children's literature
Canadian literature
Expertise
nineteenth-century literature
imperialism and nationalism
children's literature
Canadian literature