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Research Areas
Political Science; Poetry; Literature; Psychology
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University
M.A., Radcliffe College
M.F.A., Boston University
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Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Marguerite Bouvard
Marguerite Bouvard
For many years, Marguerite was 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.
Marguerite 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 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.
Current Projects
Marguerite's current research focuses on post-traumatic stress disorder of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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.