Rate My Professor Bernard Bourque

Dr. Bernard Bourque is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education at the University of New England, Australia, affiliated with the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. He obtained his BA (Honours) and BEd from Mount Allison University and his PhD from the University of New England. His career at the University of New England began with an appointment as Lecturer in French in 2006, followed by Adjunct Lecturer in 2013 (renewed in 2016), and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in 2021. Bourque teaches French language and literature units and participates in the Literary Worlds Research Group. His research interests center on seventeenth-century French literature and twentieth-century French literature.

Bourque has an extensive publication record focused on seventeenth-century French literature and theatre. Key authored books include Jean Chapelain et la querelle de La Pucelle (Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2019), All the Abbé’s Women. Power and Misogyny in Seventeenth-Century France, through the Writings of Abbé d’Aubignac (2015), and Abbé d'Aubignac. Pièces en prose. Édition critique (2012). He edited critical editions such as Guillaume Colletet. Cyminde ou les deux victimes (1642) (2022), Jean Magnon. Théâtre complet (2020), Jean Donneau de Visé et la querelle de Sophonisbe. Écrits contre l’abbé d’Aubignac (2014), and A Biography of Samuel Chappuzeau referenced in his works. He co-edited French Seventeenth-Century Literature. Influences and Transformations. Essays in Honour of Christopher J. Gossip with Jane Southwood (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009), contributing a chapter "Deux Versions de Zénobie : imitation ou transformation?". Recent refereed articles include "L'impact des régences féminines sur la scène dramatique du dix-septième siècle" and "Madeleine Lemeine, dite la Beaupré : portrait d'une comédienne française du XVIIe siècle" in Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (2023), as well as pieces in Œuvres et Critiques on Abbé d’Aubignac and prolific writers of the Grand Siècle. He coordinated the special issue "Plumes infatigables : les écrivains prolifiques du Grand Siècle" for Œuvres et Critiques (2023). Additional publications cover topics like dramatic theory, vraisemblance, and adaptation in works by d’Aubignac, published in journals such as New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Australian Journal of French Studies, and Studi Francesi. He has also written invited book reviews for CLIO and Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature.