Two Women Professors Win Book Award for Best French-to-English Translation

Angela Hunter, professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Rebecca Wilkin, professor of French at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, have received the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for their book Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections (Oxford University Press, 2023). The annual award, funded by the Florence Gould Foundation, recognizes outstanding French-to-English translation that promotes French literature in the United States.

Work on Women, authored by Louise Dupin in the 16th-century, is an in-depth feminist analysis of inequality. Dr. Hunter and Dr. Wilkin’s translation includes details from Dupin’s manuscript drafts, explanations of how the project was constructed, and academic interpretations of Dupin’s arguments.

Dr. Hunter first joined the faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2004. Throughout her two-decades-long tenure, she has held several academic and leadership roles. She currently serves as president of the faculty senate and the university assembly. Previously, she served as coordinator of the interdisciplinary studies graduate program, interim chair of the department of philosophy and interdisciplinary studies, interim chair of the department of English, and interim associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.

Dr. Hunter holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Colorado College, a master’s degree in French literature from New York University, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Emory University in Atlanta.

At Pacific Lutheran University, Dr. Wilkin holds faculty appointments in the department of global and cultural studies and the department of gender, sexuality, and race studies. Her academic expertise centers around early modern women philosophers, enlightenment political philosophy, early modern French philosophy, the history of science and medicine, and early modern French Catholicism. She is the author and editor of several books, including Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France (Routledge, 2015).

Dr. Wilkin received her bachelor’s degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.