University Assembly will be a hybrid event with an in-person meeting taking place in Dickinson Hall Room 101 and a synchronous virtual meeting . Light refreshments will be provided.

The assembly will include reports from Chancellor Christina Drale, Provost Ann Bain, Staff Senate President Don O鈥橠onnell, Student Government Association President Ainsley Kendall, and Faculty Senate President Angela Hunter.

Additional reports will be given by:

• Enrollment – Dr. Cody Decker, vice chancellor of student affairs and chief data officer
• Finance and Budget – Allen Stanley, vice chancellor of finance and administration
• Athletics – Frank Cuervo, director of athletics
• Centennial Campaign and Campus Campaign – Christian O鈥橬eal, vice chancellor of university advancement

A link to the virtual meeting and the agenda for University Assembly can be found on the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock聽.

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Hunter will begin her tenure in August. She is taking over for Dr. Joanne Matson, professor of rhetoric and writing, who is retiring this summer after more than 40 years at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock.

鈥淚 am very excited to be the next president of Faculty Senate,鈥� Hunter said. 鈥淚 felt it was a good time to throw my hat in the ring for this position since there is a lot of stability for me right now.鈥�

Having just finished up a two-year term on Faculty Senate, Hunter said it鈥檚 been a good year for her. She was promoted to a full professor and has been promoting her book, 鈥淟ouise Dupin鈥檚 Work on Women: Selections,鈥� which she edited and translated with Rebecca Wilkin after receiving a $133,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

鈥淚鈥檝e always been invested in Faculty Senate,鈥� she said. 鈥淭his is a good time to take on a new role with lots of networking and communication with people all over campus. I am happy to have this role.鈥�

Hunter earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in comparative literature from Colorado College, a master鈥檚 degree in French literature from New York University, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Emory University.

She joined 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock in 2004 and is celebrating her 20th anniversary at the university. She has previously served as coordinator of the graduate program in interdisciplinary studies, 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.

Hunter, who lives in Little Rock, is also the mother of twins, Ayelet and Delphine Benjamin, who will be freshmen at Little Rock Central High School in the fall.

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Hunter and her co-author, Dr. Rebecca Wilkin of Pacific Lutheran University, were selected for the 37th Annual French-American Foundation Translation Prize in Nonfiction for their co-translation of 鈥淟ouise Dupin鈥檚 Work on Women: Selections.鈥� They received their award, which comes with a $10,000 prize, at The Strand Bookstore in New York City June 18.

鈥淚 am so thrilled and shocked to have received this award,鈥� Hunter said. 鈥淲hen we found out that we were one of the finalists, we didn鈥檛 have too much hope that we would win the big award because there are some exciting and interesting texts in the finals. It was a great and welcome surprise to find out that we won.鈥�

The , funded by the Florence Gould Foundation, honors the best of French-to-English translation. In keeping with the foundation’s mission to strengthen ties between the United States and France, the prize has established itself as a valuable element of intellectual and cultural exchange between both countries, promoting French literature in the U.S. and providing greater visibility to translators and their craft.

The French-American Foundation noted that the 2023-24 cycle was one of their most competitive to date. The foundation鈥檚 jury of literary professionals spent five months reviewing submissions, which were judged on a wide range of criteria, including accuracy in conveying the sense of the original work, awareness of stylistic, linguistic, and cultural nuance, and the level of difficulty of the translation itself. Hunter and Wilkin were selected from more than 80 submissions.

Their goal is to bring Dupin鈥檚 most important intellectual contributions to a wider audience at a time when interest in early female philosophers is on the rise.

鈥淢ost of her correspondence was destroyed after her death, so we may never know what persuaded her not to complete and publish her work,鈥� Hunter said. 鈥淭he image of her has been portrayed as a beautiful, gracious woman, a friend to many philosophers and artists, and a great conversationalist. It鈥檚 very important to me that she is recognized as a thinker in her own right and not just as a featured friend and employer of Jean-Jaques Rousseau, who used his time in her employ to expand his own knowledge base and even borrowed ideas from Dupin.鈥�

Hunter and Wilkin haven鈥檛 finished their translations of Dupin鈥檚 manuscripts and are hoping to release further translations as part of a digital archive project or a special edition of a journal. Meanwhile, Hunter鈥檚 research on Dupin has inspired her in a new way.

鈥淚鈥檝e been researching Louise Dupin for more than a dozen years, and now I鈥檝e shifted gears,鈥� Hunter said. 鈥淚鈥檓 working on a creative historical fiction project set in an 18th-century salon in Paris. Louise Dupin鈥檚 salon is the centerpiece of this historical fiction project.鈥�

Hunter has found Dupin to be an interesting historical figure who has only been recognized in recent years for her contributions to philosophy and feminism. Dupin is primarily known for holding an important literary salon in Paris that encouraged many of the academic elites of the time and for her friendship with philosopher Jean-Jaques Rousseau, who served as a secretary in her household from 1745 to 1751.

Hunter and Wilkin received a $133,333 Scholarly Translations and Editions grant from the National Endowment for Humanities in 2020 to publish this edition of Dupin鈥檚 unpublished treatise. Oxford University Press published the book in July 2023. It is described as the French Enlightenment鈥檚 most in-depth feminist analysis of inequality and its most neglected one.

鈥淔or much of the time since her death, she was recognized more as a salon holder, a beautiful woman who was well known and had a lot of connections among enlightened intellectuals,鈥� Hunter said. 鈥淪he wrote this large work of feminist philosophy, but she did not end up fully completing it, nor did she publish it in her lifetime.鈥�

Since Rousseau became a well-known philosopher, Dupin鈥檚 manuscript was sold widely and held in many different collections. Prior to the publication of this translated book (and a French edition that was published in 2022), researchers would have had to look through more than 10 archives in three different countries to read Dupin鈥檚 work.

鈥淪ince Rousseau was her secretary for this project, his handwriting is on many of the manuscript pages,鈥� Hunter said. 鈥淭he pages were sold at auction in the 1950s and dispersed all over. Her work is a really strong, powerful feminist critique of science, history, inheritance, law, and sexism. She made a strong argument for total equality between men and women. The fact that she is finally coming to light as a philosopher in her own right is very exciting.鈥�

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University Assembly will be a hybrid event with an in-person meeting taking place in the Nursing Building Auditorium Room 205 and a synchronous virtual meeting via Zoom.

Voting for the election of the new president of Faculty Senate will take place from 3:15-5 p.m. through both paper and virtual ballots. The nominees for president are Dr. Angela Hunter, professor of English, and Dr. Thomas Tudor, professor of management.

The assembly will include reports from Faculty Senate President Joanne Matson, Chancellor Christina Drale, Provost Ann Bain, Staff Senate President Belinda Nix, Student Government Association President Jacob Ray, Director of Athletics Frank Cuervo, and the Graduate Student Association.

Additionally, Workday Project One Manager Cody Henslee will give a report on the Workday Student implementation, while LaTonda Williams, associate vice chancellor of human resources, will give a report on the staff salary study.

A link to the virtual meeting and the agenda for University Assembly can be found on the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock .

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