Eva Kushner

Eva Milada Ruth Kushner ( Dubska; June 18, 1929 – January 28, 2023) was a Canadian scholar of Comparative literature and French, Renaissance, and Canadian literature. She was the President of Victoria University from 1987 to 1994. 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 (now Czechia and Slovakia) 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 became President of Victoria University in 1987 and held that position until 1994.

Personal life In 1949, Eva Dubska married scientist and writer Donn Kushner. Works

As author

As editor