Curriculum Vitae

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

Conference Papers

 “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

 “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

 U.S. Department of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program grant to develop a Basque Studies Minor; co-principal investigators: Sabine Klahr, John Bieter, Teresa Boucher, Peter Buhler; $158,589 over two years, 2005-2007

 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

Languages

 English: native speaker

Spanish: near-native fluency

French: near-native fluency

German: reading knowledge

Latin:  reading knowledge

 

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

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                    

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