SUZANNE DESROCHERS

 

Education

 

2009-2012        PhD candidate, University of London (King’s College), UK, History Research; Thesis Topic: A Comparison of the Migration of Women from France and England to North America in the Early Modern Period

Supervisor: Dr. Laura Gowing

 

2006                 Humber School For Writers Summer Workshop, Toronto

                        Mentor: Joseph Boyden

 

 2005-2007       M.A., York University, Toronto, Interdisciplinary Studies (History & Creative Writing)

Thesis: Women of Their Time: Writing Historical Fiction on the Filles du roi of Seventeenth-Century New France.

Thesis Committee: Bettina Bradbury, Philip Marchand (book reviewer for the Toronto Star), Jamie Scott, Susan Swan,; additional supervisors: Jane Couchman, Roberto Perin

 

1996-2000        B.A., York University (Glendon College), Toronto, B.A. (Hons., bilingual) Women’s Studies/English Literature

 

Awards and Distinctions

 

2009-2012         • Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral, Social Sciences and Humanities Research

   Council of Canada

• King’s College Overseas Research Studentship

• Baxter and Alma Ricard Foundation Bursary

 

2006-2007         • Ontario Graduate Scholarship

• Ontario International Education Opportunity Scholarship, for graduate research  

   exchange at the Université de Paris IV (la Sorbonne)

            • York International Mobility Award

 • Ambassador Gary J. Smith Award, York University

 

2005-2006        • Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s, Social Sciences & Humanities Research    

                          Council of Canada

                       • Humber School for Writers Ben Labovitch Scholarship

 

2000                • Women’s Studies Departmental Book Award, York University (Glendon College)

                       • Ethel Armstrong Award, York University Women’s Studies Department

 

1999                • York University Stong College Playwriting Award, Wings of a Sparrow

 

1996                • York University Entrance Scholarship

 

 

Publications and Presentations

 

• "Cultural Supremacy Undermines First Nations Land Claims.” Society Section, Le Panoptique

on-line journal, September 2007, url: www.lepanoptique.com.

 

•  “The Process of Writing Historical Fiction.” Guest Lecture, Glendon College, HIS 3010

History and Fiction. Course director: Alexis Lachaîne, January 29, 2008.

 

•  “Writing Historical Fiction on the Filles du roi of New France.” MA Colloquium, Interdisciplinary

Studies Programme, York University, November 2006.

 

•  "The Filles du roi of Seventeenth-Century New France: a Question of Choice." (conference paper),

presented at Emerging Canadian Identities and the Atlantic World panel, New Frontiers

Graduate History Conference, York University, Toronto, February 18, 2006.

 

 

• "Prague’s Suds and Sites." (Travel article). NOW Magazine (Entertainment Weekly), Toronto,

Jan. 10-16, 2008.

 

• "Warm Train, Frigid Land." (Travel article on the Trans-Siberian Railway). NOW Magazine,

Toronto, Sept. 22-28, 2005.

 

• "Odd Jobs." (short story). The Magazine of National AJET. Tokyo, Japan. Volume XV Issue 3,

March-April 2004. p. 16-18.

 

•  "Shooting Stars." (short story). Faces in the Crowds: a Tokyo International Anthology. (ed. Hillel

Wright). Printed Matter Press, Tokyo, 2002. p. 186-191.