Judith Woodsworth

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Judith Woodsworth

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Judith Weisz Woodsworth PhD
Woodsworth in 2010

3rd President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University
In office August 1, 2008 – December 22, 2010
Preceded by	Michael Di Grappa (interim) Claude Lajeunesse
Succeeded by	Frederick Lowy (interim) Alan Shepard
7th President and Vice Chancellor of Laurentian University
In office 2002–2008
Preceded by	Jean Watters
Succeeded by	Dominic Giroux

Personal details
Born	1948 Paris, France
Alma mater	McGill University, Université de Strasbourg


Academic background
Thesis	Valery et Poe: Le delire de la lucidite (1977)
Academic work
Discipline	French Literature
Institutions	Concordia University Mount Saint Vincent University

Judith Weisz Woodsworth (born 1948) is a Canadian academic and university administrator, having formerly served as President of Concordia University and Laurentian University.

Early life and education

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Born in Paris, France, in 1948, she grew up in Winnipeg. She received a BA in French and Philosophy from McGill University, a licence ès lettres from the Université de Strasbourg in France, and a Ph.D. in French Literature from McGill.

Career

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She taught in the Département d'études françaises at Concordia University (1980–97), where she also served as vice-dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science. In 1997 she was appointed academic vice-president at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Woodsworth has written about translation theory, translation history and literary translation, and was the founding president of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies. She has written about French literature and translation, and is a certified translator and member of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada.

In 1999, she was inducted as an officer in the Ordre de la Pléiade, Ordre de la Francophonie et du dialogue des cultures, for her work in promoting the French language and intercultural relations. She is a past chair of the World University Service of Canada.

She edited (with Jean Delisle) Translators through History, also published in French as Les traducteurs dans l'histoire and in Portuguese as Os Tradutores Na Historia. In 1997, she published her first translation of a literary work, Still Lives.

Woodsworth served as president of Laurentian University from 2002 to 2008. She became president and vice-chancellor of Concordia University on August 1, 2008.^[1] On December 22, 2010, Concordia University issued a statement announcing that Woodsworth had stepped down from her position for personal reasons.^[2] She received a severance package of $703,500, worth twice her annual base salary.^[3]

She was on the board of directors of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, Montreal International, as well as vice-president of CREPUQ (The Conference of Rectors and Principals of Quebec Universities).

In 2022, she won the Governor General's Award for French to English translation for History of the Jews in Quebec, her translation of Pierre Anctil's Histoire des juifs du Québec, at the 2022 Governor General's Awards.^[4]

Publications

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Les traducteurs dans l'histoire, editors Jean Delisle and Judith Woodsworth, Renouf Pub Co. Ltd., ISBN 92-3-103137-6
Translators Through History, editors Jean Delisle, Judith Woodsworth, John Benjamins Publishers, ISBN 1-55619-697-0

References

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^ Concordia University press release, February 29, 2008 – Judith Woodsworth named new Concordia President and Vice-Chancellor
^ CNW, December 22nd 2010 – Judith Woodsworth steps down as President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University
^ "Abrupt exit for Concordia president Woodsworth". Montreal Gazette, December 22, 2010.
^ Deborah Dundas, "Sheila Heti, Eli Baxter win 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards for fiction and non-fiction". Toronto Star, November 16, 2022.

External links

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WUSC website

v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation
1980s	Patricia Claxton, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy (1987) Philip Stratford, Second Chance (1988) Wayne Grady, On the Eighth Day (1989)
1990s	Jane Brierley, Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence (1990) Albert W. Halsall, A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z (1991) Fred A. Reed, Imagining the Middle East (1992) D. G. Jones, Categorics One, Two and Three (1993) Donald Winkler, The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers (1994) David Homel, Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex? (1995) Linda Gaboriau, Stone and Ashes (1996) Howard Scott, The Euguelion (1997) Sheila Fischman, Bambi and Me (1998) Patricia Claxton, Gabrielle Roy: A Life (1999)
2000s	Robert Majzels, Just Fine (2000) Fred A. Reed and David Homel, Fairy Ring (2001) Nigel Spencer, Thunder and Light (2002) Jane Brierley, Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s Life (2003) Judith Cowan, Mirabel (2004) Fred A. Reed, Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition (2005) Hugh Hazelton, Vetiver (2006) Nigel Spencer, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction (2007) Lazer Lederhendler, Nikolski (2008) Susan Ouriou, Pieces of Me (2009)
2010s	Linda Gaboriau, Forests (2010) Donald Winkler, Partita for Glenn Gould (2011) Nigel Spencer, Mai at the Predators’ Ball (2012) Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (2013) Peter Feldstein, Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography (2014) Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One Cardinals (2015) Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (2016) Oana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (2017) Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Descent Into Night (2018) Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (2019)
2020s	Lazer Lederhendler, If You Hear Me (2020) Erín Moure, This Radiant Life (2021) Judith Weisz Woodsworth, History of the Jews in Quebec (2022) Peter McCambridge, Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution (2023) Katia Grubisic, Nights Too Short to Dance (2024)

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