J. I. Segal Award for The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington: A Critical Edition (University of Ottawa Press)

Rosa and the late David Finestone Canadian Jewish Studies Award,  J. I. Segal Awards, Jewish Public Library, 2016

Yiddish Award for The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington: A Critical Edition (University of Ottawa Press).

Canadian Jewish Literary Award, 2015

Literature Award for The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington: A Critical Edition (University of Ottawa Press)

PROSE Award for Literature, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, 2015

Poetry Award for Laike and Nahum: A Poem in Two Voices (Inanna Publications)

Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Poetry, 2008

Editor of Parchment: Contemporary Canadian Jewish Writing 

Editorial Board Member of Canadian Jewish Studies

Advisory Board Member of Authorship (Ghent University)

Member of Editing Modernism in Canada

Fellow of Massey College  University of Toronto

Chava Rosenfarb’s Early Life Writing: "Bergen-Belsen Diary, 1945"

"I am being taught by my own work": Editor Claire Pratt of McClelland and Stewart

Does Publishing History Repeat Itself?: From Macmillan to M&S

Case Study: The Macmillan Company of Canada

"The skeleton in every publisher’s house": Readers Vivian Holland, Elizabeth Sturges, and Gladys Neale of the Macmillan Company of Canada

"Head of the publishing side of the business": Ellen Elliott of the Macmillan Company of Canada

"A Press with Such Traditions": Oxford University Press of Canada

The Publication of Thomas Chandler Haliburton’s The Clockmaker, 3rd Series

"Notwithstanding their differing approaches-digital, archival, historical, iterative, critical, creative, reflective-the essays gathered here articulate new ways of seeing, investigating, and apprehending literature and culture." - From the Preface  This collection of fourteen essays enriches digital humanities research by examining various Canadian cultural works and the advances in technologies that facilitate these interdisciplinary collaborations. Fourteen essays in English or French survey the helix of place and space: While contributors to Part 1 chart new archival and storytelling methodologies, those in Part 2 venture forth to explore specific cultural and literary texts. Cultural Mapping and the Digital Sphere will serve as an indispensable road map for researchers and those interested in the digital humanities, women's writing, and Canadian culture and literature.

Cultural Mapping and the Digital Sphere: Place and Space

Miriam Waddington's verse is deceptively accessible: it is personal but never private, emotional but not confessional, thoughtful but never cerebral. The subtlety of her craft is the hallmark of a modernist poet whose work opens to the world and its readers. She details intoxicating romance and mature love, the pleasures of marriage and motherhood, the experience of raising two sons to adulthood, and the ineffable pain of divorce. As she moved through life, she wrote clearly and uncompromisingly about the vast sweep of Canada, her travels to new lands, the passage of time, the death of her ex-husband, the loss of close friends and, later, of growing old.

The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington Set (Canadian Literture Collection)

Fifth Business and Alligator Pie. Stephen Leacock, Grey  Owl, and Morley Callaghan: these treasured Canadian books and authors were all nurtured  by the Macmillan Company of Canada, one of the country's foremost  twentieth-century publishing houses. The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada is a unique look at the contribution of publishers and editors to the  formation of the Canadian literary canon.Ruth Panofsky's study begins in 1905 with the establishment of Macmillan  Canada as a branch plant to the company's London office. While concentrating on  the firm's original trade publishing, which had considerable cultural  influence, Panofsky underscores the fundamental importance of educational  titles to Macmillan's financial profile. The Literary Legacy of the  Macmillan Company of Canada also illuminates the key individuals –  including Hugh Eayrs, John Gray, and Hugh Kane – whose personalities were as  fascinating as those of the authors they published, and whose achievements helped to advance modern literature in Canada.

The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture (Studies in Book and Print Culture)

Cultural Writing. Jewish Studies. This book brings together essays that probe the articulation of Jewishness and femaleness. Showing how female Jewish identity is constructed in Canadian prose works that span the years 1956 to 2004, the essays speak to the writers' preoccupation with cultural identity and create a portrait of how it feels to be Jewish, Canadian, and female. Each contributor seeks to investigate her identity as a Canadian, a Jew, and a woman, as well as to critique prevailing notions of Canada as a country that embraces people of all faiths, of Judaism as open to female participation, and of Jewish women as submissive within marriage. As the first book to focus exclusively on writing by Jewish Canadian women, this collection aims to deepen and broaden the Canadian literary canvas.

At Odds in the World: Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers

Adele Wiseman was a seminal figure in Canadian letters. Always independent and wilful, she charted her own literary career, based on her unfailing belief in her artistic vision. In The Force of Vocation, the first book on Wisemanís writing life, Ruth Panofsky presents Wiseman as a writer who doggedly and ambitiously perfected her craft, sought a wide audience for her work, and refused to compromise her work for marketability.     Based on previously unpublished archival material and personal interviews with publishers, editors, and writers, The Force of Vocation charts Wiseman’s career from her internationally acclaimed first novel, The Sacrifice, through her near career-ending decisions to move into drama and non-fiction, to her many years as a dedicated mentor to other writers. In the process, Panofsky presents a remarkable and compelling story of the intricate negotiations and complex relationships that exist among authors, editors, and publishers. 

The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman

This collection of essays details the complexity and diversity of author Adele Wiseman. Writing in several different genres, from children's books to plays and essays, Wiseman became one of the most renowned Canadian authors and won Canada's Governor General's award for her first novel, 'The Sacrifice'. With the success of her first novel at the age of 28, Wiseman came to prominence in both the United States and Canada quite early. Her second novel, 'Crackpot', about prostitution, has been the subject of current critical debate.

Adele Wiseman (Writers Series 7)

Over a period of forty years, from 1947 to 1986, Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman wrote to each other constantly. The topics they wrote about were as wide-ranging as their interests and experiences, and their correspondence encompassed many of the varied events of their lives. Laurence's letters - of which far more are extant than Wisman's - reveal much about the impact of her years in Africa, motherhood, her anxieties and insecurities, and her developement as a writer. Wiseman, whose literary success came early in her career, provided a sympathetic ear and constant encouragement to Laurence.The editors' selection has been directed by an interest in these women as friends and writers. Their experiences in the publishing world offer an engaging perspective on literary apprenticeship, rejection, and success. The letters reveal the important roles both women played in the buoyant cultural nationalism of the 1960s and 1970s. This valuable collection of previously unpublished primary material will be essential to scholars working on Canadian literature and of great interest to the general reading. The introduction contextualizes the correspondence and the annotations to the letters help to clarify the text. The Laurence-Wiseman letters offer a fascinating glimpse into the lives and friendship of two remarkable women whose personal correspondence was written with verve, compassion, and wit.

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

Best known as the author of The Sacrifice and Crackpot, Adele Wiseman has also written children's stories, plays, and memoirs. There has been a significant quantity of criticism about her writing, from book reviews and interviews to more serious scholarly articles. All of this material is now available in Panofsky's unique work.

Adele Wiseman: An Annotated Bibliography

Poetry. "In spare, elegant, and superbly textured poetic language, Ruth Panofsky imagines the lives and thoughts of Laike and Nahum, evoking their hardships and struggles through the strength of remembrance, confronting with an open heart and a poet's eye the need to preserve and understand her ancestral and historical past through language and memory. By entering the everyday existence of two lives, Panofsky captures the complexity and difficulty of the immigrant experience, exploring the rhythms of a harsh Russian past moving toward an unk nown future in Montreal, of the efforts to raise a large family and earn a living, and of dealing with personal tragedy and the larger world. Panofsky weaves an intriguing, compelling, sometimes painful poetic story of love and family that does not flinch from the difficulties of the immigrant experience and shows the beauty of the human spirit"-J. J. Steinfeld.

Laike and Nahum: A Poem in Two Voices

"In these gentle, perceptive lyrics, Ruth Panofsky voices the subtle intricacies of familial pleasure and its accompanying pain: the illness of a beloved child, the loss of a parent, the daily joy and quotidian sorrow family brings. Panofsky risks 'releasing into life' poems that illustrate both the attachments and the ruptures of family love." -Rhea Tregebov

Lifeline (Essential Poets 107)

Dr. Ruth Panofsky is Professor of English and also teaches in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. She is affiliated with Ryerson University’s Modern Literature and Culture Centre (as a Research Associate) and Centre for Digital Humanities (as a member). Dr. Panofsky is also a member of Editing Modernism in Canada, an international collaborative project housed in Dalhousie University’s Department of English, and editor of Parchment: Contemporary Canadian Jewish Writing.

Ruth Panofsky is a Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto and has served as visiting professor of creative writing at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. She has received fellowships and grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Bibliographical Society of Canada. In 2008, she received the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Poetry.

Ruth Panofsky's critical edition of the collected poetry of Miriam Waddington was published in 2014 by University of Ottawa Press and won the 2015 PROSE Award for Literature, a 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award, and a 2016 J. I. Segal Award. Her current SSHRC-funded project is a study of women in English-language book publishing in Canada, 1930-2000. Dr. Panofsky has published widely in the field of book history and print culture in Canada. In addition to scholarly works, she has published two books of poetry; her articles, book reviews, and poems have appeared in scholarly periodicals, literary journals, and major Canadian newspapers.

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