Queer Places:
Harvard University (Ivy League), 2 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Brandeis University, 415 South St, Waltham, MA 02453
Andrée M. Collard (December 13, 1926 - September, 1986) was a feminist and professor.
Andrée Collard grew up in a small village in Belgium. In 1950 she came to
the United States on a Marshall Plan scholarship. She moved to Mexico City,
where she received an M.A. in romance literature from Universidad Nacional de
México (1955). She became a U.S. citizen in 1955, and worked as a translator/interpreter on Wall Street and as a teacher before returning to graduate school, earning a Ph.D. in Romance literature from Harvard in 1964.
Collard was on the faculty at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., from 1962 until her death in 1986. She taught courses in Spanish, comparative literature, and, as interest in women's studies began to grow, advocated the establishment of a Women's Studies program, and developed new courses such as Portrayal of Women in Literature, Myths of Origin and the Development of Patriarchy, and Women in Patriarchal Culture. A founding member of the Boston chapter of the National Organization for Women (she served as treasurer in 1969), Collard chaired the faculty committee to investigate the status of women at Brandeis. She was also director of a Carnegie-funded project to set up an office at Brandeis for undergraduate women to explore career options (1974-1975).
Andrée Collard was the author of Nueva Poesía: Cultismo, Culteranismo en la Crítica Espanola (1967), the translator and editor of Bartolomé de las Casas, History of the Indies (1971) and (with Joyce Contrucci) Rape of the Wild: Man's Violence against Animals and the Earth (published posthumously in 1988), as well as numerous articles and reviews.
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