Teresa Boucher
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Boise State University
1910 University Drive
Boise, Idaho 83725-1530
Phone 208-426-3796
Fax 208-426-5909
Education
Princeton University
Ph.D. Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) 1996
M.A. Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) 1991
Middlebury College
M.A. French 1989, Middlebury College School in Paris, Université de Paris X - Nanterre
M.A. Spanish 1988, Middlebury College School in Madrid, Instituto Internacional
Dartmouth College
B.A. magna cum laude, with high honors in Spanish 1985
Language Study Abroad, Arles, France, winter 1984
Foreign Study Program, Salamanca, Spain, fall 1983
Professional Experience
Chair and Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Boise State University, 2005-present
Chair and Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Boise State University, 2001-2005
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Language and Literatures, Boise State University, 1996-2001; Spanish Section Head, 1997-2001
Instructor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Boise State University, 1994-1996; Coordinator of First-Year Spanish, 1994-1996
Lecturer in Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, 1993-1994, Head of Course for Spanish 103 Intensive First-Year Spanish
Assistant in Instruction in Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, 1989-1993
Assistant to the Faculty, Spanish School, Middlebury College, summer 1989
English Reader, L’Ecole Supérieure d’Interprètes et de Traducteurs (The Graduate School of Interpreters and Translators), Paris, France, 1988-1989
Spanish Teacher, Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Massachusetts, 1985-1987
Apprentice Teacher, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dartmouth College, Introductory Spanish, Rassias Method, 1984-1985
Work in Progress
Translation of the novel Love Letters from a Sensual Sexagenarian by Miguel Delibes, originally published as Cartas de amor de un sexagenario voluptuoso. Áncora y Delfín 574. Barcelona: Destino, 1983.
Publications
Book
Boucher, Teresa. Existential Authenticity in Three Novels of Spanish Author Miguel Delibes. Hispanic Literature 86. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2004. ISBN 0-7734-6477-8.
Articles
Boucher, Teresa. “Craving Credibility: Teresa de Avila’s Shifting Discourse in Meditaciones sobre los Cantares [Meditations on the Canticle of Canticles].” Romance Language Annual XI (2000): 417-423.
Boucher, Teresa. “The Filmic Reframing of El disputado voto del señor Cayo [The Disputed Vote of Mr. Cayo] by Miguel Delibes.” Annual of Foreign Films and Literature: An International Journal on Film and Literature 5 (1999): 15-23.
Boucher, Teresa. “Delibes and ‘The Question Concerning Technology.’” Ojáncano: Revista de Literatura Española [Ojáncano: Journal of Spanish Literature] 15 (October 1998): 33-46
Boucher, Teresa. “The Widow’s Peak / The Widow Speaks: Carmen’s Idle Talk in Miguel Delibes’s Cinco horas con Mario [Five Hours with Mario].” Cincinnati Romance Review 15 (1996): 50-56
“Through the Looking Glass: Ana’s Mirror in Señora de rojo sobre fondo gris by Miguel Delibes.” Fifty-fourth Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Boise, Idaho, October 12-14, 2000
“Craving Credibility: Teresa de Avila’s Shifting Discourse in Meditaciones sobre los Cantares [Meditations on the Canticle of Canticles].” Eleventh Annual Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures, and Film, West Lafayette, Indiana, October 7-9, 1999
“Mirror Images: Reflections on Delibes’s Señora de rojo sobre fondo gris [Woman in Red on a Gray Background] and Sartre’s Huis clos [No Exit].” Nineteenth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 6-8, 1999
“The Filmic Reframing of El disputado voto del señor Cayo [The Disputed Vote of Mr. Cayo].” Conference on Foreign Films and Literature, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, November 6-7, 1998
“Don Quixote in Québec,” Tenth Biennial Conference of the American Council for Québec Studies, Québec City, Québec, October 17-20, 1996
“Five Hours with a Lady in Red,” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Boulder, Colorado, October 12-14, 1995
“The Widow’s Peak / The Widow Speaks: Carmen’s Idle Talk in Miguel Delibes’ Cinco horas con Mario [Five Hours with Mario],” Fifteenth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 11-13, 1995
“Don Quixote in Québec,” Romance Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Colloquium, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, December 7, 1991
Workshops
Coordinate departmental workshops for tenure-line faculty, Special Lecturers and part-time adjuncts every August on Best Teaching Practices and every January on Case Studies in MLL (common problems and policy issues), 2001-present
“Best Practices in Support of Adjunct Faculty,” invited presentation to fellow chairs, Chairs’ Workshop, Boise State University, November 13, 2002
“Curricular Changes in Spanish at Boise State University,” a panel discussion with members of the Spanish Section, moderated at the annual meeting of the Idaho Association of Teachers of Language and Culture, Boise, Idaho, October 2, 1998
“The College Connection: Improving Articulation Between Idaho’s Secondary and University Spanish Programs,” roundtable discussion moderated at the annual meeting of the Idaho Association of Teachers of Language and Culture, Nampa, Idaho, October 3, 1997
“Using Songs in the Modern Language Classroom,” for teachers of French, German and Spanish, conducted at the annual meeting of the Idaho Association of Teachers of Language and Culture, McCall, Idaho, October 7, 1994
“Teaching a Foreign Language,” conducted at Princeton University for university-wide training of graduate Assistants in Instruction, “An Introduction to Teaching at Princeton,” Princeton, New Jersey, 1993, 1992, 1991
Led departmental teacher-training sessions for graduate students, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1992, 1991, 1990
Courses Taught
Boise State University
Spanish 498 Senior Seminar: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
Spanish 498 Senior Seminar: Writing and Repression in Post Civil War Spain
Spanish 498 Senior Seminar: Metamorphosis: Stories of Change and
Transformation in Hispanic Literature
Spanish 498 Senior Seminar: The Novels of Miguel Delibes
Spanish 498 Senior Seminar: Don Quijote de la Mancha
Spanish 497 Special Topics: The Cinema of Spain: Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar
Spanish 490 Topics in Hispanic Cinema: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Spain
Spanish 477 Women’s Literature of the Spanish-Speaking World: Women Writing in Postwar Spain
Spanish 465 Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Peninsular Literature: Golden Age Drama
Spanish 440 Topics in Spanish Peninsular Literature: Lorca’s Plays
Spanish 440 Topics in Spanish Peninsular Literature: Don Quijote de la Mancha
Spanish 435 Twentieth-Century Spanish Peninsular Literature: The Post Civil War Novel: From Novel to Film
Spanish 412 Advanced Spanish Grammar and Syntax
Spanish 405-406 Survey of Spanish Peninsular Literature I and II
Spanish 376 Spanish Peninsular Civilization and Culture
Spanish 312 Grammar Review
Spanish 322 Advanced Spanish Conversation
Spanish 304 Introduction to Hispanic Literature
Spanish 303 Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition
Foreign Language 496 Independent Study: Approaches to Foreign Language Education (taught in English)
Foreign Language 331 Introduction to Literary Studies (taught in English)
Princeton University
Studies in Spanish Language and Style
Advanced Spanish
Intensive Beginning and Intermediate Spanish
Beginning Spanish
Middlebury College
Beginning Spanish
Dartmouth College
Introductory Spanish
Academic Honors, Awards and Grants
Boise State University
Named Honored Faculty Member by Top Ten Scholar, Michael Vanderbeek, Spanish major, Spring 2002
Released time of one course funded by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for research on Spanish novelist Miguel Delibes, spring 2000
Faculty Research Travel Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, for travel to the Conference on Foreign Films and Literature, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, November 6-7, 1998
Released time of one course funded by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for research on Spanish novelist Miguel Delibes, fall 1997
Faculty Research Travel Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, for travel to the Tenth Biennial Conference of the American Council for Québec Studies, Québec City, October 17-20, 1996
Faculty Research Travel Grant, Office of Research Administration, for travel to the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Boulder, Colorado, October 12- 14, 1995
Faculty Research Travel Grant, Office of Research Administration, for travel to the Fifteenth Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May 11-13, 1995
Released time of one course for participation in a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to develop Spanish-for-Business video guides to be integrated into the Spanish program, spring 1995
Princeton University
Armstrong Grant, 1994
Armstrong Prize, 1989-93
McMahon Summer Research Grant, 1992
Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni Teaching Award, 1991
Albert B. Schultz Fellowship, 1989-1990
Dartmouth College
Joseph Dallet Jr. 1927 Memorial (Spanish & Portuguese) Prize, 1985
Frank David Lena 1962 Memorial (Language) Prize, 1985
Rufus Choate Scholar, 1984-85
Bushrod Campbell Scholarship, 1983-85
German Book Award, 1983-84
Materials Development
Developed Spanish for Business video guides: value-added tax in Spain, Spanish imports and exports, Spanish television commercials, etc., with one course of released time funded by U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant, spring 1995
Editorial Work
Editorial consultant for Wiley & Sons Publishers; edited and evaluated 5th edition of de la Vega and Salazar’s Avanzando, July 2001
Guest Speaker
Proposed and organized Boise State campus visit of Dr. Francisco LaRubia Prado, Associate Professor of Spanish, Georgetown University, including a public talk on Unamuno, Ortega, Novalis and Goethe, and a guest lecture on Unamuno in Spanish 405 Survey of Spanish Peninsular Literature, to commemorate the centenary of Spain’s Generation of 1898, April 1998
Academic Service
Boise State University
University Service
Dean Searches
Member, Search Committee, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, 2005-2006
Member, Search Committee, Dean of Extended Studies, fall 2002
New Chair Mentor
for Communication Department Chair, 2004-05
for English Department Chair, 2003-04
Teacher Education Coordinators’ Council, Fall 2001
Member, Pre-Medical Committee for Jared Andrews, May 1997
College of Arts and Sciences
Member, Dean’s Evaluation Committee, spring 2002
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Arts and Letters, 1996, 1995
Member, Curriculum Committee, Arts and Letters, 1994-1997
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Chair, June 2001-present
Standing Committees
Chair, Faculty Committee, 2001-present
Chair, Special Lecturers’ Committee, 2006-present
Chair, Steering Committee, 2001-2005
Chair, Basque Studies Committee, 2006-2007
This committee was charged with overseeing two grants: a three-year grant from the Basque Government (2005-2008) and a two-year USDE Title VI grant (2005-2007) and included members from International Programs, History Department, and Modern Languages and Literatures; First International Basque Studies Conference hosted by Boise State University in April 2007; Rev. Alec Reid and Ibon Mendibelzua were the two international keynote speakers.
Advising Coordinator, 2001-present
Arabic Section Head, 2004-present
ASL Section Head, 2004-present
Chinese Section Head, 2003-present
French Section Head, 2003-04; spring 2005
Japanese Section Head, 2001-present
Tenure-Line Faculty Searches
Chair, Spanish Search Committee, Latin Americanist, 2005-2006
Chair, French Search Committee, 2004-2005
Chair, German Search Committee, 2003-04
Special Lecturer Searches
Chair, Special Lecturer in Spanish Search, Spring 2007
Chair, Spanish Language Coordinator Search, Fall 2006
Chair, French Search Committee, Temporary Special Lecturer, Spring 2004
Internship Coordinator, 2001-2003
Non-Credit Language Program Coordinator, 2001-2003
Spanish Section Head, 1997-2001
Coordinate course scheduling of 35 sections of Spanish, teaching and advising assignments, tutoring services in Spanish
Recruit, interview, orient, support and evaluate 15 adjunct faculty in Spanish in cooperation with the Spanish Language Coordinator
Liaison to area high school teachers of Spanish
Revised Spanish curriculum, effective 1998-99
Advisor for Spanish majors and minors, 1994-present
Coordinator, Advanced Spanish Conversation & Composition, 1997-98
Proposed and coordinated Spanish category in President’s Writing Contest, 1999-2000, 1998-99, 1997-98, 1996-97, 1995-96
Implemented pilot program of “Spanish Write Project” for three sections of Spanish 303 in collaboration with Rick Leahy, English Department, fall 1997
Member, Steering Committee, 1994-2001
Tenure-Line Faculty Searches
Member, Search Committee, Spanish Applied Linguist, 2000-2001
Member, Search Committee, Spanish for Business specialist, 1998-99
Member, Search Committee, French, 1996-97
Member, Search Committee, German, 1996-97
Member, Search Committee, Latin Americanist 1996-97
Member, Search Committee, Mexican Americanist, 1995-96
Member, Search Committee, Spanish Applied Linguist, 1994-959595
Coordinator of first-year Spanish, 1994-96
Observed and supervised five adjunct faculty, selected texts, elaborated common course policies, implemented common final exams, coordinated traditional, intensive, weekend and telecourse sections
Compiled bibliography of 500 titles in Peninsular Spanish literature and culture for acquisition by Albertson Library, Boise State University, 1994-95
Princeton University
Head of Course, Intensive Beginning and Intermediate Spanish, fall 1993
Cooperating Supervisor in conjunction with the Princeton Program in Teacher Preparation for a Spanish major who interned at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School, New Jersey, spring 1994
Developed and implemented pilot program for university-wide teacher training of graduate Assistants in Instruction, “An Introduction to Teaching at Princeton,” Princeton University, 1991
Professional Service
Tenure and Promotion Review
· External peer review of the quality, quantity and impact of the scholarly publications of a candidate for promotion and tenure at the University of Missouri St. Louis, specializing in Basque Women’s Literature and Spanish Peninsular Literature. Summer 2007.
Member, Court Interpreter Subcommittee, Idaho Supreme Court, 2002-2006
Independent Evaluator on behalf of the Idaho Humanities Council for “Fiesta Idaho: A
Hispanic Folk Life Festival,” September 2002
Dramaturgy consultant to Department of Theatre Arts’ production of Federico García Lorca’s House of Bernarda Alba, directed by Ann Hoste, October-November 2000
Community Service
Dartmouth College Alumni Interviewer for applicants from the Boise area, Boise, Idaho, 1998-99, 1996-97
Volunteer teacher of English as a Second Language to Latinos from the Princeton community, Princeton, New Jersey, 1990-1993
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Memberships
AATSP American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
ACTFL American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
ADFL Association of Departments of Foreign Languages
IATLC Idaho Association of Teachers of Language and Culture
MLA Modern Language Association
RMMLA Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
August 2007