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Susan Swan

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Department of Humanities

Professor Emerita

Email: sswan@yorku.ca


Professor Swan is a cofounder of The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and has been an awards finalist for numerous Canadian literary prizes.

Swan’s archives span her life as a novelist and Humanities professor and are available as fonds in the York University archives (https://atom.library.yorku.ca/index.php/susan-swan-fonds).

York University Robarts Scholar for Canadian Studies 1999–2000

Humanities professor 1991-2007

Fiction author with international publications

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Degrees

B.A., McGill University

Research Interests

, Canadian culture, feminist politics, creative writing. As the Robarts Millennial Scholar, Professor Swan organized the Millennial Wisdom Symposium in which historians, archaeologists, and novelists discussed what (and if) we learn from the past.

Professor Swan is a cofounder of The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and has been an awards finalist for numerous Canadian literary prizes.

Swan’s archives span her life as a novelist and Humanities professor and are available as fonds in the York University archives (https://atom.library.yorku.ca/index.php/susan-swan-fonds).

York University Robarts Scholar for Canadian Studies 1999–2000

Humanities professor 1991-2007

Fiction author with international publications

Degrees

B.A., McGill University

Research Interests

, Canadian culture, feminist politics, creative writing. As the Robarts Millennial Scholar, Professor Swan organized the Millennial Wisdom Symposium in which historians, archaeologists, and novelists discussed what (and if) we learn from the past.