Education
University of Bordeaux.
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Barbara Godard
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Career
She held the Avie Bennett Historica Chair of Canadian Literature and was Professor of English, French, Social and Political Thought and Women"s Studies at York University. She published widely on Canadian and Quebec cultures and on feminist and literary theory. Barbara Godard died peacefully in Toronto on May 16, 2010.
Across Canada and throughout the world, poets, scholars, feminists, and friends mourned her death.
A founding co-editor of the feminist literary theory periodical, Tessera, Barbara Godard was contributing editor of Open Letter and The Semiotic Review of Books and book review editor of Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. In 1998 she held the Gerstein Award for an advanced research seminar on Translation Studies in Canada: Institutions, Discourses, Texts.
In 2001, with Di Brandt she organized the conference ""Wider Boundaries of Daring": The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women"s Poetry" whose proceedings are currently being edited for publication. A first volume, ReGenerations: Canadian Women Poets in Conversation, appeared in 2006.
Achievements
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She is the recipient of the Gabrielle Roy Prize of the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (1988), the Award of Merit of the Association of Canadian Studies (1995), the Vinay-Darbelnet Prize of the Canadian Association of Translation Studies (2000) and the Teaching Award of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University (2002) and of the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools (2002). In 2010, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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Born
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Nationality
Canadian