Eva Milada Ruth Kushner OC FRSC (née Dubska; June 18, 1929 – January 28, 2023) was a Canadian scholar of Comparative literature and French, Renaissance, and Canadian literature.

Eva Dubska was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czechia and Slovakia) on June 18, 1929.

[1][2] She lived in France from 1939 to 1945, returned briefly to Czechoslovakia after World War II, and then moved to Canada in 1946.

[2] Kushner attended McGill University and obtained a BA in Philosophy and Psychology in 1948.

[2] She also served as Chair of the Royal Society of Canada Committee on Freedom of Scholarship and Science from 1993 to 1998.