Margaret Boyle

Margaret E. Boyle is Director of Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies at Bowdoin College, and Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies. Her writing and research spans the language, literature and culture of early modern Spain and colonial Latin America Her primary interests include Hispanic women's literary and cultural history, theater history and performance, and health humanities, including medical, spiritual and food cultures. Boyle is also the director of Multilingual Mainers, an elementary world languages and cultures program providing age-appropriate tools to combat xenophobia, racism and intolerance through engagement with languages other than English. She has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Whiting Foundation for work in cultural and international exchange.