Donelle Ruwe

Dr. Donelle Ruwe is the author of British Children’s Poetry in the Romantic Era: Verse, Riddle, and Rhyme (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), co-editor with James Leve of Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater (Routledge, 2020), and the editor of Culturing the Child 1660-1830: Essays in Memory of Mitzi Myers (Scarecrow 2005). She has published numerous scholarly articles on Romantic poetics, women writers, and children’s writing in journals such as Eighteenth-Century Life, The English Journal, Children’s Literature, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts. Ruwe is co-president of the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association. She has chaired the Scholarly Edited Collection award for the Children’s Literature Association and judged the Lion and the Unicorn Award for the Year’s Best North American Poetry for Children. She has received research awards including a National Humanities Center Summer Program Fellowship, the RMMLA Faculty Travel Award, the Fleur Cowles Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Research Center, and an Ahmanson Fellowship from U.C.L.A. Ruwe is a published poet, and her chapbook Condiments won the Kinloch Rivers Award in 1999, and her chapbook Another Message You Miss the Point Of won the Camber Press Prize in 2006.
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