Eva Kushner

Eva Kushner
Born	Eva Dubska (1929-06-18) June 18, 1929 Prague, Czechoslovakia
Education	McGill University
Spouse	Donn Kushner ​ ​ (m. 1949; died 2001)​
Children	3

Eva Kushner (born June 18, 1929) is a Canadian scholar of Comparative literature and French, Renaissance, and Canadian literature. She was the President of Victoria University in 1987. In 1997, she was made an officer of the Order of Canada. She was the first woman to be a university president in Ontario, Canada.

Biography

Eva Dubska was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on June 18, 1929. She lived in France from 1939 to 1945, returned briefly to Czechoslovakia after World War II, and then moved to Canada in 1946.

Kushner attended McGill University and obtained a B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology in 1948. In 1950, she obtained an M.A. in Philosophy and in 1956, she obtained a Ph.D. in French Literature.

Kushner became President of Victoria University in 1987 and held that position until 1994. She also served as Chair of the Royal Society of Canada Committee on Freedom of Scholarship and Science from 1993 to 1998.

In 1997, the Canadian government awarded her the Order of Canada award.

Personal life

In 1949, Eva Dubska married scientist and writer Donn Kushner. The two were together until Donn Kusher's death in 2001. They had three sons, Daniel, Roland and Paul.

Works

As author

Year	Title	Translated title	Ref.
1961	Patrice de la Tour du Pin
	Le mythe d'Orphee dans la litterature francaise contemporaine	The myth of Orphee in contemporary French literature
1963	Chants de Boheme	Songs of Bohemia
1967	Saint-Denys Garneau
1972	Francois Mauriac

As editor

Year	Title	Translated title	Ref.
1984	Renewals in the Theory of Literary History
1995	La problematique du sujet chez Montaigne	The problematic of the subject in Montaigne
1996	Constraints to Freedom of Scholarship and Science