Teresa Boucher

Dr. Teresa Boucher began teaching Spanish at Boise State University in 1994. She served as chair of the Department of World Languages from 2001-2013, doubling the number of full-time faculty and increasing the number of languages offered from four to ten: American Sign Language, Arabic, Basque, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. Other accomplishments include creating the minors in American Sign Language, Arabic Studies, Basque Studies, Chinese Studies, and Latin, establishing a scholarship fund for each language, leading the department in proposing fifty courses for inclusion in the new Foundational Studies Program, expanding concurrent enrollment offerings at area high schools, and supporting the development of online offerings in ASL, French, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish.

In addition to her publications on the Spanish author Miguel Delibes and on Teresa de Avila, Dr. Boucher has been invited to review publications for the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Letras Hispanas, Transmodernity, and Juan de la Cuesta Monographs. She served on the Editorial Board of L'Érudit franco-espagnol and has also served as an editorial consultant for Wiley & Sons Publishers.

Dr. Boucher earned her B.A. magna cum laude with high honors in Spanish from Dartmouth College. She holds two master's degrees from Middlebury College - one in Spanish and one in French - and has studied abroad on four occasions, in Spain and in France. Her academic career then led her to Princeton University where she earned an M.A. and the Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures.