University of Richmond French Professor Awarded Fellowships
June 14, 2004
Julie C. Hayes, professor of French and chair of the modern languages and literatures department at the University of Richmond, is studying this summer at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Cal., and will be in residence at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C. for the academic year 2004-05.
She was awarded both a $30,000 National Humanities Center fellowship for 2004-05 and a $2,000 short-term fellowship from the Huntington Library to help her complete her research project "Translation, Subjectivity and Culture in France and England, 1600-1800."
The National Humanities Center, in Research Triangle Park, N.C., offers 40 residential fellowships. It received 526 applications in its fellowship competition for 2004-05.
Last fall, Hayes was awarded a $40,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2004-05 for the same project. All of the awards will help her complete her study of the work of British and French translators in the 17th and 18th centuries. She is examining more than 350 translators' prefaces and related documents for a book she is writing on historical translation theory and practice.
"The project speaks to a wide range of issues in the humanities," Hayes said, "including the relationship of past to present, the evolution of the notion of authorship, the place of women in the literary marketplace, the role of language in the expression of national identity, and the ways in which translation mediates our relationships with cultural others."