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Canadian academic (born )

Alan Shepard (born c.&#;)^[1] is an American-Canadian academic and the current and 11th president and vice-chancellor of Western University in London, Ontario, effective July He previously served as the president and vice-chancellor of Concordia University in Montreal.

Early life and education

Shepard was born in Iowa, and is a dual citizen of both Canada and the United States.^[2] He has a background in Early Modern English literature. He received a B.A.

in English literature from St. Olaf College in ^[3] and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in ^[2][4]

Career

Shepard served as the chair of the English department at Texas Christian University from to ^[2] He moved to Canada in , where he began working as a visiting research fellow at the University of Toronto.^[2]

Shepard was hired as an associate vice-president academic at Univ