Marguerite Bouvard

Areas of Expertise

Political Science; Poetry; Literature; Psychology

Email: bouvard@brandeis.edu

Current Project

I am doing research on Mothers of soldiers who are returning from combat with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I see a great need for increasing awareness of the trauma soldiers and their families experience since there is very little information or discussion on this topic other than in Veteran's organizations, and since according to RAND, twenty percent of returning vets experience PTSD.

Biography

Marguerite Bouvard was for many years a professor of Political Science at Regis College and a director of poetry workshops. She is multidisciplinary and has published 17 books, numerous articles in the fields of political science, psychology, literature and poetry. Both her poetry and essays have been widely anthologized. She has received fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute, the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women and from the Puffin Foundation. She has been a writer in residence at the University of Maryland and has had residencies at the MacDowell Colony the Yaddo Foundation, the Djerassi Foundation, the Leighton Artists’ colony at the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Marguerite’s activities as a Resident Scholar include organizing the first Tillie K. Lubin Symposium, as well as sponsoring lecture series on women and human rights and on environmental racism. Marguerite was also a founding editor of the All Sides of Ourselves publication series. She continues to organize panels for Women’s History Month and has had two collaborative exhibits at the Dreitzer Gallery and one at the gallery in the Women’ Studies Research Center.

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University

M.A., Radcliffe College

M.F.A., Boston University

Representative Publications

Bouvard, Marguerite.  The Unpredictability of Light. Word Press, 2009.

Bouvard, Marguerite.  Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Wilmington, DL: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994.

Links

Curriculum Vitae

The Unpredictability of Light

Healing: A Life with Chronic Illness

The Path Through Grief