York University Libraries Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections

File consists of personal and professional correspondence, both handwritten and e-mail, sent and received by Swan. Correspondents include Nino Ricci, Margaret Atwood, Samantha Haywood, Patrick Crean, Sheila Heti and many others.

Writers' Union of Canada correspondence and resource materials

2013-041/010(03)
File
2006-2008

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File pertains to Swan's year as chair of the Union (2007-2008).

E-mail relating to "The Western Light"

2017-010/008(05)
File
2010-2012

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of e-mail exchanged between Swan, her literary agent, publisher and others pertaining to the editing, publication and promotion of The Western Light. Also included are research materials pertaining to fact-checking and promoting the novel.

Letter from James Clarke

2017-010/008(07)
Item
19 Feb. 2013

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Item is a letter sent to Swan from James (Jim) Clarke praising The Western Light.

E-mail about Globe and Mail essay

2017-010/008(08)
File
2013-2014

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of e-mail exchanged between Swan, Sheila Heti, Lisan Jutras and Jared Bland pertaining to Swan's essay for the Globe and Mail on the subject of the "new unromantic romantics" in literature.

E-mail : Katherine Govier

2017-010/008(09)
File
Jan. 2016

Part of Susan Swan fonds

E-mail, proposals about "Sexual Gothic" or "The Dead Celebrities Club"

2017-010/008(11)
File
2013-2016

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of e-mail sent and received by Swan pertaining to research for her book, The Dead Celebrities Club, performances of her theatre project, "Heroines of the Sexual Gothic", her participation in writers' festivals, and other topics relating to her literary career.

Miscellaneous correspondence

2017-010/009(03)
File
2007, 2009-2010

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of e-mail, greeting cards and letters pertaining to Swan's personal life, her writing career, her creative writing teaching and her involvement with the Writers' Union of Canada.

Academic info and policies re: York university

1995-030/028(03)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Academic: Notes for 1988 English class, Larry Streicher's thesis material, info on conceptual art

1995-030/029(12)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

English 332

1996-026/002(03)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Philosophy of History

1996-026/002(05)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Essays and exams

1996-026/002(06)
File
1964-1965

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Material Documenting Swan's Involvement in YUFA Strike

2002-007/003(01)
File
1997

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Tenure File

2002-007/003(03)
File
1989-1998

Part of Susan Swan fonds

York University

2002-007/003(05)
File
1996-1997

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Academic Essays re: Swan's Work

2003-028/002(56)
File
1983-1989

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Creative Writing Appointment

2003-028/002(59)
File
2001-2002

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Professorial Correspondence

2003-028/002(60)
File
1987-1988

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Professorial Correspondence

2003-028/002(61)
File
1991

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Millennial Wisdom Symposium, correspondence, planning, research

2003-028/002(66)
File
1999-2000

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Millennial Wisdom Symposium, poster (2 copies)

2003-028/011(04)
File
1999

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Susanna Moodie lecture

2008-006/006(14)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Lecture notes on Maria Campbell

2008-006/006(16)
File
1997

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Thoughts on fiction and post-modernism

2008-006/007(05)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Notebook : 3rd year fiction Humanities Stong 223

2008-006/007(06)
File
1985

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Notebook : 2nd year English 203 Stong 2020

2008-006/007(08)
File
1985

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Detective Fictions

2008-006/007(09)
File
[198-?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Irony. Violent Porn

2008-006/008(11)
File
1988

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Resume and York tenure

2008-006/008(17)
File
[ca. 1994?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Millennial Wisdom Symposium : grant application, newspaper clippings and research materials

2013-041/011(02)
File
1999-2000

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File pertains to a six-part symposium organized by Swan titled "Making up the past: the archaeology of fiction".

My speech in Amsterdam : "The writer's conscience and the rhetoric of Canadian writing"

2013-041/011(03)
File
18 Oct. 2000

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Notes on essay for [Barbara] Goddard : media as literature

2013-041/011(04)
File
1989-1990

Part of Susan Swan fonds

The writer's conscience (Robarts lecture)

2013-041/011(08)
File
2000, 2003

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Writers' Union 2007 : fight vs. Harper

2017-010/010(02)
File
2007, 2011

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of The Writers' Union of Canada information sheets/promotional materials regarding Prime Minister Stephen Harper's support of the arts in Canada, as well as a creative writing piece about Harper by one of Swan's students and an agenda and related e-mail pertaining to a writers' protest, "The awakening", to be held in Ottawa at the Parliament buildings. Also included in the file is a document entitled "Thoughts towards a writer's ten digital commandments" and an e-mail from Susan Kersten regarding digital publishing.

Notebooks, including Can Lit class notes