Norma Bouchard was previously dean and professor at San Diego State University.
After a national search, the College of Arts and Sciences named Norma Bouchard its new dean, filling a position occupied for 15 years by Donna Murasko, who remains at Drexel as a member of the faculty.
Bouchard comes to Philadelphia from the College of Arts and Letters at San Diego State University, where she was dean of the university’s largest college with 18 academic departments and 650 faculty members, and also professor of European Studies.
She joined San Diego in 2015 after 17 years as professor of Italian and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut-Storrs, where she was promoted through the ranks to professor; head of the department; co-chair of the Graduate Program in Comparative Literatures and Cultural Studies; and associate dean of the Humanities, the Centers and Institutes of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the five regional campuses.
A native of Italy, she earned a master’s in Italian literature and a doctorate in comparative literature from Indiana University- Bloomington.
She will take over from Interim Dean Maria Schultheis ’98, chair of the Psychology Department and a clinical neuropsychologist, who has helmed the college since July 2018.