Teresa
Boucher
Department
of Modern Languages and Literatures
Boise State University1910 University Drive
Boise, Idaho 83725-1530
Phone 208-426-3796 Fax 208-426-4285
tbouche@boisestate.edu
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, Coordinator of First-Year Spanish, Department of Modern Languages
and Literatures, Boise State University, 1994-1996
Lecturer
in Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton
University, 1993-1994
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
Voluptuous 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
“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
“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: 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 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 397 Special Topics: Advanced Spanish Conversation
Spanish 376 Spanish Peninsular Civilization and Culture
Spanish 312 Grammar Review
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,
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 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
New
Chair Mentor for Communication Department Chair, 2004-05
New
Chair Mentor for English Department Chair, 2003-04
Member,
Search Committee, Dean of Extended Studies, fall 2002
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, fall 1996, fall 1995
Member,
Curriculum Committee, Arts and Letters, 1994-1997
Department
of Modern Languages and Literatures
Chair,
June 2001-present
Chair, Steering Committee, 2001-2005
Chair, Faculty Committee, 2001-present
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
Chair, French Search Committee, 2004-2005
Chair, German Search Committee, 2003-04
Chair, French Search Committee, 2004-2005
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
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, 1994-95
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
Member,
Court Interpreter Subcommittee, Idaho Supreme Court, 2002-present
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
English:
native speaker
Spanish:
near-native fluency
French:
near-native fluency
German:
reading knowledge
Latin:
reading knowledge
Memberships
ACTFL
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
ADFL
Association of Departments of Foreign Languages
ALFH
Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica
IATLC
Idaho
Association of Teachers of Language and Culture
IC
Instituto Cervantes
MLA
Modern Language Association
RMMLA
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
SSSAS
Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies
August 2005