Sandra Djwa dating history

Sandra Djwa is a member of the following lists: 1939 births, Members of the Order of Canada and University of British Columbia alumni.

Contribute

Who is Sandra Djwa dating? Sandra Djwa boyfriend, husband list. Help us build our profile of Sandra Djwa! Login to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions.

Details

Sandra Djwa FRSC (born April 16, 1939) is a Canadian writer, critic and cultural biographer. Originally from Newfoundland, she moved to British Columbia where she obtained her PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1968. In 1999, she was honored to deliver the Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture in honor of the department's 80th anniversary. She taught Canadian literature in the English department at Simon Fraser University from 1968 to 2005 when she retired as J.S. Woodsworth Resident Scholar, Humanities. She was part of a seventies movement to establish the study of Canadian literature and, in 1973, cofounded the Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures (ACQL). She was Chair of the inaugural meeting of ACQL. She initiated textual studies of the poems of E. J. Pratt in the eighties, was editor of Poetry, "Letters in Canada" for the University of Toronto Quarterly (1980-4), and Chair of Canadian Heads and Chairs of English (1989).