ANDRÉE M. COLLARD, 1926-1986

Born in 1926 in Brussels, Belgium, Andrée M. Collard came to the United States in 1950 on a Marshall Plan scholarship. She received her B.A. (Mexico City College, 1951) and M.A. in Romance literature (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), AMC 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).

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