Jack Wallace
Jack Wallace
Jack Wallace is from Winchester, Virginia, and is an Echols Scholar at the University of Virginia where he studies English. Jack studies bibliography, manuscript archives, and literary criticism and is writing an honors thesis on imprisoned Pinto poetry in the American Southwest. He has written papers on legal education in 19th century Virginia, symbolism in British abolitionist literature, and the use of heraldry in bibliographical work. Jack serves as an elected representative on UVA’s Honor Committee, co-leads the Echols Ambassadors, performs in the Chamber Singers, and serves as a Rotunda Ambassador for the University’s UNESCO World Heritage site. He has worked at UVA’s Special Collections Library, for the Jefferson’s University the Early Life historical project, and for the Rare Book School assisting classes in book history.
He hopes to advocate for literacy in all of its forms, and to support librarianship between the US and UK. To further these goals, he hopes to pursue an MA in the History of the Book at the Institute for English Studies in London, then an MA in English at the University of Warwick.