Gary Bouchard, Ph.D.
Professor
English Department

Office: 126 Bradley House
Phone: (603) 641-7019
E-mail: gbouchard@anselm.edu

Dr. Gary Bouchard specializes in Early Modern lyric and narrative poetry. He joined the English Department in 1987, and completed his Ph.D. at Loyola University of Chicago in 1988. Dr. Bouchard teaches courses in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature, including Renaissance Studies, Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, The Sonnet and the Metaphysical Poets.

Dr. Bouchard has published essays on a variety of early modern authors including Edmund Spenser, Phineas Fletcher, William Alabaster, Robert Southwell, George Herbert, Thomas Traherne and John Milton. He has also published several articles on the nineteenth century poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins. His book, Colin's Campus: Cambridge Life and the English Eclogue was published by Associated University Presses in 2000. Dr. Bouchard's current research interests include poetry of the English Recusancy, as well as the prolific and various uses of alcohol in the works of William Shakespeare.

Dr. Bouchard has served Saint Anselm in a variety of capacities including a five-year term as the college's executive vice president from 1998 to 2003. He has also been a team member and chair on several NEASC Accrediting teams at other institutions, as well as a wide variety of college committees for two decades. He currently serves as the secretary of the Executive Board of New Hampshire Catholic Charities and assists various organizations in the cultivation and articulation of their missions.